Marty,
Try
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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Greg Maxey
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Rockledge, FL
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> when i copy text from the web into word, i always get a
> hard return at the end of each line. is there a way to
> delete the hard returns at the same time instead of
> deleting them one by one? thanks in advance.