I use the alternative find and replace add-on and can recommend it. On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, 13:15 W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof., < robert.funn...@mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Honorato - > > I missed seeing your message. I think you can do what you want using the > Alternative Find & Replace extension ( > https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer). > As described at http://macrojtb.hys.cz/HelpAltSearch_en.html, specify \m > to find manual page breaks and specify \r (in the Replace field) to remove > them. > > - Robert > > ________________________________ > From: Mike Flannigan <mf...@mflan.com> > Sent: March 26, 2024 08:59 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org> > Cc: honoratomor...@yahoo.es <honoratomor...@yahoo.es> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks > (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string. > > > You did a good job of explaining your problem. > Sorry we do not have an answer to your question. > > > Mike > > > On 3/20/24 09:09, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: > > Subject: > > [libreoffice-users] Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks > > (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string. > > From: > > honorato moreno ruiz <honoratomor...@yahoo.es> > > Date: > > 3/19/24, 14:04 > > > > To: > > "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> > > > > > > Good afternoon. Sorry my English > > I need to replace Manual Page Breaks (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable > character string. > > My problem is that the "Search" function does not distinguish the Manual > Page Break from the Paragraph Break (ENTER). That is, putting the > expression "$" in the "Search" field gives me both the Page Breaks and the > Paragraph Breaks. This way it replaces all of them, the page ones and the > paragraph ones, which is not what I want (I need to keep the paragraph > ones). > > In other words, I can't find the regular expression to search for Page > Break and it doesn't give me paragraph breaks at the same time. > > There is a similar question in April 2023, which can be found by "Remove > manual page breaks in Writer". But the solution does not work for me, > because my colleague pjferra needed to replace the page breaks with > paragraph breaks, and Kyodake responds, correctly, to that need in which it > does not matter to replace the two types of breaks in the operation, since > they are replaced by paragraph breaks. > > Has this situation arisen before for you? Have you managed to solve it? > > Thank you so much for your attention. > > Honorato Moreno > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
