At 11:08 03/01/2024 -0500, Bill Drescher wrote:
I have a document that I copied from the original on the web
(legally). Now I need to modify it using LO. The document has hard
line breaks that I want to remove.
The first thing to do is to understand what you are handling here.
Calling these "hard line breaks" (or, even worse, "crlf" - as you
have in your Subject header) is unhelpful, as what I assume you have
here is what in a word processor are *paragraph breaks*.
Using the find and replace form I can not figure out how to indicate
a line break.
It's generally necessary to think in terms of the paragraphs
themselves, rather than breaks. (But perhaps not here ...)
With "Regular Expressions" selected /n, /n/lf fail.
Those would need to be backslashes, not slashes. And \n matches a
line break, not the paragraph breaks that I believe you have here.
What can I use to replace the line break with a space?
Just "$" (no quotes), it seems.
Another thought: consider using Paste Special (instead of ordinary
Paste) and "Unformatted text" when inserting text from elsewhere.
This avoids some problems.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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