What's the easiest way to remove carraige returns from OE message?

When I copy a message from OE 6 to a Word file, a carraige return is put at the end of each line. I want to remove those carraige returns but preserve paragraph breaks. In order to preserve paragraph breaks, I know that I can search/replace for two carriage returns first, then replace any that are left, then put the paragraph breaks back in. But is there an easier way? I often copy OE messages to save them, and it gets time consuming to do this for every one.

Thanks for any suggestions.

i "m using Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP Professional SP2.

I know this question has been answered often, but I can't find the answer.

Thanks !!