MS Word is the ultimate word processing software, used by millions of users every day. With numerous paragraph and sentence break options, you can handle your document in any way you want. But if you want to split a paragraph into separate sentences, you will be hard-pressed to find a single option in MS Word that can do that for you. Luckily, there is a workaround to separate your sentences so that each sentence gets its own paragraph. Read on to learn more!

Follow the steps below to learn how to separate sentences in a paragraph. Also, note our assumptions, as they may determine changes you may need to make to your own sentences.

We’re working with the basic assumption that a sentence ends with a period, which, while usually true, isn’t always the case. Sentences can end with question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, etc. But since periods are a good starting point, we’ll use this as an example. You can use the same guide to separate sentences that end with other characters.

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