Tip #2. Cleaning Up your Manuscript

Spaces before new lines

The “howto”

1. Open your MS Word document
2. Save As a new name – you don’t want to be in the position of not being able to recover, should things go awry.
3. Press the key combination “Ctrl+H” – control + “h”
4. You will see a prompt appear called “Find and Replace”
5. Click the “Replace” tab.
6. In “Find what:” type ‘^w^p’ without the single quote.
7. In “Replace with:” type ‘^p’ without the single quote.
8. Click “Replace All”
9. Save your document.