Front Page inserts <p> 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.

The only way I have found to remove this unwanted spacing is to manually remove each and every opening and closing <p> tag, and at the end of each line, insert a <br> tag.

This is tediously slow.  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.  I can't imagine manually removing each paragraph element.

Who out there knows a work around for this absurd nuance in Front Page?  Please help?