Front Page line spacing issue

Front Page inserts &lt;p&gt; tags before & after every line of text one cuts and pastes into a new document: this results in what appears to be a double-line spacing between the lines.<br><br>The only way I have found to remove this unwanted spacing is to manually remove each and every opening and closing &lt;p&gt; tag, and at the end of each line, insert a &lt;br&gt; tag.<br><br>This is tediously slow.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now I am facing posting 'excerpts' from many books written by authors whose work is contained within a desktop publishers website I developed and maintain.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can't imagine manually removing each paragraph element. <br><br>Who out there knows a work around for this absurd nuance in Front Page?&nbsp;&nbsp;Please help?<br>