Video: How to Split Paragraph into Individual Sentences in Microsoft Word Document

This tip is not specific to Instructional Design but if you are dealing with Microsoft Word a lot and wondering how to break paragraphs into separate sentences, this is for you.

For instructional Designers, this tip will be useful when you have a large chunk of content and needs to be separated for word/ text-based or PPT storyboards, this will come in handy.

Method 1

1. Ctrl + H (Find and Replace) 
2. Find . period and add space after the period to remove extra spaces when breaking the lines. (assuming all sentences end with a period)
3. Replace with .^l (lower case L and not to be confused with Pipe or Vertical Bar key below the Backspace key)

Method 2

1. Ctrl + H (Find and Replace) 
2. Find . period (assuming all sentences end with a period)
3. Replace with .
4. Click More >> on the left bottom.
5. Click Special dropdown.
6. Select Manual Line Break
7. In the Replace with section you will find .^l added
8. Click Replace All

You are done.