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How to Split a MS Word Paragraph into Individual Sentences

Introduction

In MS Word, a paragraph is a block of text that follows one after the other.

It is a block of text that follows one after the other and is indicated by a blank line between paragraphs.

How to Split a Paragraph

Imagine you have a long text made up of a single paragraph.

How would you split it into individual sentences, each forming its own mini paragraph?

Obviously, if we are talking about a single paragraph with a few sentences, the answer is no brainer: you do it manually by placing your cursor at the end of each sentence and pressing the ENTER key twice.

What If…

But how would you accomplish the same easily if you had (let’s say) a 100-page document consisting of solid text, with no breathing space between the sentences? That’s the question.

Imagine you have the following MS Word text, just for the sake of illustrating the method:

MS Word paragraph split into sentences

  1. Press Ctrl + H to display the Find and Replace dialog box.
  2. Enter a period into the Find What field. (We assume that every sentence ends with a period.)
  3. In the Replace With field, enter the following characters:

    .^|^|

  4. Or alternatively, enter a period in the Replace With field and then select the “Manual Line Break” option twice from the Special drop-down menu.
  5. Click Replace All and your paragraph will be split neatly into individual sentences:

MS Word paragraph split into sentences 2

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1 Comments

  1. dam on May 17, 2016 at 1:06 am

    Thank you!!!