I experimented with replacing the paragraph mark in a lyric in the Just as the Tide was Flowing thread.
I put in 4 lines of test verse I had created in Word using the standard paragraph mark as the line delimeter. When I copied and pasted it back in to Word I found it all came out in one long line.
I broke the line up using the enter key thus getting the Word paragraph mark at the end of each line. I then used the Edit/Replace function. In the Find What box I clicked in the Special button and chose the Paragraph mark. You get ^p.
In the Replace With Box I typed in the “br” with the chevrons round it followed by the paragraph mark from the Special list. You then get your “br” followed by the paragraph mark. I copied that back in to the Reply box and the whole thing formatted fine.

If you do a straight replace of the paragraph mark with the “br” Word reformats the text in one long line . Thats why it is better to replace the paragraph mark with “br” followed by the Word paragraph mark.

Hope this helps the hard pressed editors

Regards

Ian