macro to format text in Word which is copied from the internet

I often have the problem of not being able to format text copied from webpages correctly.

For example I might paste (Keep Text Only) a piece of text such as:

Studies showing that this also results in similar gains
outside reserves are fewer in number, and more variable in
conclusions reached. Accordingly, it is difficult to ascertain
whether marine reserves are beneficial
for harvestable fish stocks.

The problem is that it comes with line breaks whereas I want to go right across the page in Word without an early line break.

So to have it look like

Studies showing that this also results in similar gains outside reserves are fewer in number, and more variable in conclusions reached. Accordingly, it is difficult to ascertain whether marine reserves are beneficial for harvestable fish stocks.

At the moment what I do is just backspace and space bar as I go through each line.

I'm sure there is a better way to do this but I don't know how.

Try using the replace feature. Highlight the text, the press Ctrl-H. Find the character you don't want (I think you need to select special characters or something). The put nothing as the replace string, and replace all

Works great! Cheers for that.

In the replace feature I just clicked on the [more>>] button then click on [Special], then selected "manual line break" from the menu to put into the find field and left the replace field blank as you said.