Thanks. That's helpful. On 18 Jul 2012 at 5:22, Brian Barker wrote:
Send reply to: [email protected] Date sent: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:22:27 +0100 To: [email protected] From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Macro or its equivalent to replace double spaces with single space. > At 19:26 17/07/2012 +0100, Niall Martin wrote: > >That's the sort of thing I used to do in Lotus Wordpro -- and > >similar for redundant carriage returns -- and find difficult to do on > >Writer. Put spaces and carriage returns etc in quotes or? If there > >is a simple way of doing it in find and replace it is really much > >better than setting up macros and the like. > > You mean you want to remove empty paragraphs? Just search for ^$ > (circumflex-dollar) and replace with nothing. Click More Options and > tick "Regular expressions". The circumflex anchors the search to the > beginning of a paragraph and the dollar sign to the end of a paragraph > - so the pair with nothing in between match only an empty paragraph. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For > additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Niall Martin Phone 0131 4678468 Please reply to: niall<at>rndmartin.cix.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
