Forced Line Break and Paragraph Return

Hi.. It´s maybe a simple question but I cannot see diferences.
What´s the difference between Forced Line Break and Paragraph Return ?
Thank's for the answer

A force line break is still the same paragraph. You won't see a difference unless there is some text change with each new paragraph, such as a style change or the addition of space before or after a paragraph. The forced line break can also be used as a trigger in a nested style to make the first line or lines formatting for a paragraph different from the following lines.
Peter

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I'm importing word .doc that are text-heavy and the formatting is such that there are lots of extra forced line breaks creating a blank line between paragraphs.
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Any advice on clear steps to do it using the find/change option?
Thanks in advance as always..
JRH

Are you talking about two hard returns [Enter] in a row, or a soft and hard return [Shift + Enter] and [Enter]? A forced line break is a soft return, but most Word users would just hit the return key for an empty paragraph to get an empty line.
In either case, you can do a simple text find change, if GREP intimidates you. Use the special characters menu to enter either two "end of paragraph" or a "forced line break" and "end of paragraph" markers into the find field and a single "end of paragraph" marker into the change field.
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Hi,
Just a cut and paste of yours with the field name changed:
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hi everybody,
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This is probably really simple, but I searched the help file and didn't find it.
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I'm editing text that we thought was fairly final, and I usually work in Preview mode as it's cleaner and easier to see what's going on. But I'm fearful of any forced line breaks that I may not know about that could mess up the paragraph flow after I make changes. The text is fully justified.
I know I can work in Normal mode and turn on 'View Hidden Characters' to see them. But even with that, they can sometimes be small and hard to see depending on the complexity of the type and how zoomed-in I am.
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OK. Thanks. I knew that would be an option, I just think I confused a couple other features with what I was hoping to do.
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Fix the forced line break bug already!

Illustrator has had the same bug since version 11. In 5 consecutive versions!
Forced line break in a justified text behave like a paragraph ending (Enter) aligning the line before the forced line break left. It looks like a new paragraph but it is just incorrectly aligned line in the middle of a paragraph.
Also Find & Replace recognizes only forced line break but (^n) not paragraph ending (^p) although both can be used in text.
Since discretionary hyphens do not have an effect whatsoever it requires a lot of manual editing to make typographically acceptable text block to the back of a book jacket.
So, Adobe. How hard is exactly fix this very annoying bug which has been reported dozens of times? It has even been demonstrated to your tech people who agreed that it really is a bug and should be fixed.

A force line break is still the same paragraph. You won't see a difference unless there is some text change with each new paragraph, such as a style change or the addition of space before or after a paragraph. The forced line break can also be used as a trigger in a nested style to make the first line or lines formatting for a paragraph different from the following lines.
Peter

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That is not what I get. Since it's URL-encoded, spaces are represented by the "+" character and carriage returns are represented by the "%0d%0a" (cr/lf) sequence.
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I support our E-Commerce (ISA 5.0) web application. We are using the R/3 edition, which in our case is an ECC6 backend (not CRM).
Anyhow, I am pulling the customer preferred carrier text from the vendor master into the web application. Once I have it, I am appending additional text (ex, "Qualifies for FREE FREIGHT") to it, then sending it back to ECC6 when the order is send/saved.
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