Are you helpful enough? ... to the helpless ..this one made me hopeless! Grrrrr

The reason that you are getting these spaces is that each LINE is formatted as a paragraph when you have copied and pasted it into Word 2007. Turn ON 'Show formatting' (the button with the paragraph mark on the 'Home' menu) and you will see all the invisible formatting. You can do a 'Search and Replace' to replace all paragraph marks or newline marks with a space but it is better to do it in two stages (depending on the document). I find it best to replace all occurrences of two paragraph marks together (^p^p) with a combination that doesn't occur elsewhere (I often use '$$'), then replace all SINGLE paragraph/newline marks ('^p' or '^l') with spaces and then replace all '$$' with paragraph marks ('^p'). Copies from a PDF can often be more complicated than that, too, because you very often have to remove headers and footers which come in as part of the text. Go look at some 'Help' on advanced Search and Replace. There are some quite powerful options which allow you to specify 'any number' or 'any character' and can speed up the removal of repeating text which you don't need.