Is it possible to loop a find and replace array?

[Paul_Hossler]

You can't delete the last paragraph mark in a document. It looks like you have one empty paragraph in the document (the first ¶, and the document's final ¶)

You can use a macro I guess to see if a paragraph is empty and delete it if it is a real issue

Playing around -- I found it easier to just use subs instead of the array

Option Explicit
Sub ArrFndRep()
    
    '2 or more spaces to one space
    Call pvtWildcardFR(" {2,}", " ")
    
    '2 or more tabs to one tab
    Call pvtWildcardFR("^t{2,}", "^t")
    
    'space or tab + para to one para
    Call pvtWildcardFR("[ ,^t]{1,}^13", "^13")
    
    '2 or more para to one para
    Call pvtWildcardFR("^13{2,}", "^13")
    
End Sub

Private Sub pvtWildcardFR(Orig As String, Repl As String)
    With ActiveDocument.Range.Find
        .ClearFormatting
        .Replacement.ClearFormatting
        .Forward = True
        .Format = False
        .MatchWholeWord = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Text = Orig
        .Replacement.Text = Repl
        .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    End With
End Sub

[Kilroy]

Very interesting approach. Thanks Paul

[macropod]

If all you're worried about is that a final pair of paragraph breaks remains in your document after running the macro, that's not actually something Find/Replace can do anything about - because the final paragraph break cannot be processed. You'll find the same thing with the final paragraph before a table. They will be processed anywhere else in the document, however.

[Kilroy]

Thanks Paul. No I'm definitely not worried about having the paragraph breaks remaining. I just thought it was interesting that the final break has different properties. Thanks again guy for the help.

[Paul_Hossler]

Thanks Paul. No I'm definitely not worried about having the paragraph breaks remaining. I just thought it was interesting that the final break has different properties. Thanks again guy for the help.

Word stores a lot of information about the Paragraph at the paragraph mark position in the in the document file

IIRC, the last paragraph mark also includes Section information which is why it's 'special' and not deletable