See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CleanWebText.htm.

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Longhorn Rich wrote:
So I copied text from an internet document and pasted it into a word
doc. However the only way to have the lines space properly within the
full length of the margins is to manually backspace between the line
breaks (carriage returns) in the text. Can word do this automatically
for me?