Easily removing paragraph break when you cut and paste from other documents

Sometimes we copy and paste text from other document (such as pdf) to Word and found that it comes with paragraph breaks like this

Artificial neural network is an alternative to the classical

procedures to develop predictive models (Jang, 1993). The current

trend in data analysis and soft computing is to develop hybrid

There is a way to remove these paragraph breaks easily by following these steps

1. Select the text you want to work with
2. Ctrl-h (to activate replace menu)
3. In "Find what:" type ^p
4. In "Replace with:" type one space (by pressing the space bar key only once)
5. Click "Replace All" 

You should get the result (text without paragraph breaks) like this

Artificial neural network is an alternative to the classical procedures to develop predictive models (Jang, 1993). The current trend in data analysis and soft computing is to develop hybrid