Microsoft Word - How to Replace Double Paragraph Breaks with a Wildcard Search?
- Find and Replace.
- Check the Search Option box "Use Wildcards."
- Instead of ^p^p use the ANSI code for paragraph mark:
^013{2,}
A curly bracket is a quantifier so {2,4} matches 2 to 4 breaks and {2,} just means 2 or more.
Thanks to https://intelligentediting.com/blog/replacing-double-paragraph-breaks-with-a-wildcard-search/ and more details are available there.