What if I just press ctrl+f on the pdf and use the find bar. Would that work

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In Word, you can also highlight the text you want to remove line breaks from and do find/replace.

One the find line, search for ^p. On the replace line, put nothing. ^p means "new paragraph" in Word. You can also replace it with a space if you want.

Also cleans layout coming from word or other things, my alternative for using the editor if i have some weird formatted text

Exactly. So just paste it into another application, not the browser's url box.

Also, turn off that feature. I have on all my browsers.

Wouldnt notepad work too?

If you use a developer app like Sublime Text, you can paste the whole paragraph and then hit the shortcut to join all the lines.

lol.. and I thought, it was only me who was doing it; I basically do it to get rid of all fancy formatting and want plain text, to copy

Nope didn’t work for me in the apps I tried

Omg this sub is a joke.

The key here is removing line breaks, not formatting. Nice trick.

Just wanted to add, anything you copy into the address bar of your browser will be searched on the Internet using the browser's default search engine, even without submitting it.

Don't put anything sensitive in the URL bar!

You can also use Notepad on Windows. Helps because it's meant to hold more than one line

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Dang I've been using online page break remover website but this is faster.

Sure, you can do that, but it's still not as fast

Notepad++ can easily strip out line breaks, so I just paste into that and remove the line breaks with a search and replace.

Notepad keeps the original line breaks.

I tend to use the start menu.

Windows key. ctrl-v. ctrl-a. ctrl-x.

I've always done this! People consider me insane but can name no better alternative. Ctrl + shift + v rarely gets rid of the line breaks.

If someone knows a shortcut, I'd love to know

This doesn't always get rid of the line breaks

or use notepad like human

You can simply paste as plain text with ctrl + shift + v

cmnd-shift v does this in most applications

Thanks. I actually learned this from a small child who showed me 40 years ago.