Remove Paragraph and Line Breaks

Removes paragraph breaks and line breaks on selected paragraphs and merges them into a single paragraph			Download If this didn't work, get help downloading this macro
Author(s)	:	Onetastic ★
Category	:	Content
Last Updated	:	June 28, 2020
Requirements	:	OneNote 2010 or above
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Changelog	:	June 28, 2020 (A0A775) - Onetastic ★ Updated to preserve text formatting while removing paragraph and line breaks May 12, 2018 (48D345) - Onetastic ★ Updated to handle line breaks as well as paragraph breaks June 20, 2016 (7EA38C) - Onetastic ★ Re-written with the new Macro Language to take advantage of cleaner syntax and performance improvements These versions are no longer supported: July 26, 2014 - Onetastic ★ Initial version

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Omer Atay - 2020-06-28

This is now updated to preserve text formatting while removing paragraph and line breaks

Anonymous - 2020-06-17

Hello, thanks for the amazing work, it is super useful to copy paste from PDF.
Nevertheless i have noticed it leaves all the text without the font formatting, like blacked or underlined text, ends like regular text. Would it be possible to create a non edditing version of the macro?

Omer Atay - 2018-05-12

JS Yeo: They are likely line breaks. I updated the macro to handle line breaks as well. You need to download the latest version of the macro.

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JS Yeo - 2018-05-11

This macro not longer seems to work. It seems to pass through the selected text but doesn't seem to have any effect: the lines are still broken in odd places by what are presumably paragraph returns. They can be deleted manually, but the macro doesn't seem to do this any more.

Dan - 2017-01-20

Hello Omer,

I would like to remove the paragraph breaks between SETS of paragraphs that start with

XX1 and end in XX2.

example
================
XX1
Video provides a powerful way

to help you prove your point.

When you click Online Video,

you can paste in the embed

code for the video you want to add.
XX2
===============

I tried for days to do this - but its not working :(

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Macro name="Remove Paragraph Breaks" category="Paragraphs" description="" publishDate="00-00-00T00:00:00.000Z" version="15">
  <Comment text="Remove Paragraph Breaks Between  XX1 and XX2" />
  <Expression>$text = ""</Expression>
  <Expression>$FirstParagraph = ""</Expression>
  <ForEach var="Paragraph">
    <Array>QueryObjects("Paragraph", GetCurrentPage())</Array>
    <If>
      <Condition>$Paragraph.selection == "none"</Condition>
      <Continue>1</Continue>
    </If>
    <If>
      <Condition>!String_EndsWith($text, "XX2 ", false) && ($text != "")</Condition>
      <Expression>$text += " "</Expression>
    </If>
    <Expression>$text += $Paragraph.text</Expression>
    <Expression>$Paragraph.text = ""</Expression>
    <If>
      <Condition>$FirstParagraph == ""</Condition>
      <Expression>$FirstParagraph = $Paragraph</Expression>
    </If>
  </ForEach>
  <If>
    <Condition>$FirstParagraph != ""</Condition>
    <Expression>$FirstParagraph.text = $text</Expression>
  </If>
</Macro>

Thank you for any help - I am really grateful otherwise i have to go through long long document and do this manually :(

heweiss - 2016-08-06

I do agree with Filippo, however it changes the font and removes uppercase for example - that's not so fine...

Filippo - 2016-01-24

This is a great macro for getting rid of hard line breaks in pasted text, especially if you are pasting from PDFs

eDasm - 2014-11-24

Very useful macro. Thanks for making it available for us.

2thdr - 2014-07-27

This is great tool for those of us who handwrite notes that we want to convert to text. This macro formats the converted text into \"normalized\" paragraph.

Thanks, Omer!!

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