Are you asking about the Find and Replace suggestion? I had to search for the discussion,
and looking at it, I am guessing this is what you are asking about. If the Microsoft link
in The Scummy One's post doesn't help http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/word/HP052612751033.aspx
try this.
In the Word menu bar > Replace > Enter the characters you want to replace in the Find text box.
In the Replace tab, do not enter anything if you want the found characters to be removed.
Click on the "More" button to be able to Find/Replace "special" characters. Under the Format button, you could
select "tabs" to find tabs, which you could replace with nothing, effectively deleting them.
Under the Special button, you can select items like non-braking spaces or section breaks, or column breaks
to find and replace. You can even select for "White Space".
Again, in the Replace text box, do not enter anything if you simply want the found characters to be deleted.
Once you set this up, you can click Replace, which will replace the next found character. Replace All will
process the entire document. Find Next will simply find the next occurrence, and you can choose to delete it or
hit Find Next again to skip over.
Note that you can also Find and Replace a string of spaces. That way you could replace ten spaces with one, or nothing.
Hope this helps some. You still need to do multiple operations, but it will be a bit more automated.
You could also try something like Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
but you'll have to learn your way around the menus, although the Edit and Text FX menus will have
the options you are looking for. (Free.)
When I've run into similar situations, I've sometimes found it convenient to strip out all formatting,
then insert paragraph breaks myself. This can be accomplished much more easily in a plain-text editor,
as a lot of formatting is automatically dropped when saving as plain text.
