I need to paste multiple lines of text into just one cell

I have text that includes paragraph markers that I need to paste into a single cell on a worksheet. The text comes from various OCR'd PDF files where paragraph markers are seemingly randomly interspersed. When I try to paste as is, Excel automatically separates the text into different cells based on where the paragraph markers occur. I tried changing the settings in the Text to Columns wizard, by unchecking everything, to no avail. I've got to do this thousands of times for my project so I need a solution that is as straightforward as possible and requires few mouse clicks or typing strokes.

Does double clicking on the cell so that you see a blinking cursor,,, and then pasting solve your problem?

Solved on another forum. Select cell then paste to the input bar instead of the cell. Used =SUBSTITUTE(a2,Char(10)," ") to then replace line breaks with spaces and make it readable.