Hi to all,
I use ^p to designate paragraph returns in LO and I think it works in MS Word
as well. I have a need to remove blank lines (empty paragraphs) from time to
time.
I search for ^p^p and replace with ^p (the ^ (caret) is above the 6 ).
I'm not sure what a 'soft return' is, but to take
I'd suggest that, before giving advice, people actually try what they are
suggesting.
In OOo and LO, unlike MSO, paragraphs are designated by surrounding the
text with p/p symbols (like html). As a result, there is no paragraph
mark to search for, and using either ^p or \n in the search field
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:00:28 -0500
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns
From: jomali3...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
I'd suggest that, before giving advice, people
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Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 9:55 AM
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns
Hi to all,
I use ^p to designate paragraph returns in LO and I think it works in MS Word
as well. I have a need to remove blank lines (empty paragraphs
On 28/11/2011, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tom and e-letter
I think you both missed step number 2 in Miroslaw's answer
The reason for this is that the option is always selected manually! :)
2. In More options check Regular expressions.
Although this is not quite user friendly, it
On 28/11/2011 at 22:15, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed, it would be good if LO saved the option chosen from the last
time the dialogue window was opened (as occurs in a text editor). If
this worthy of a bug notification?
Maybe you mean some specific circumstances, but my Writer
On 28/11/2011 at 20:49, John McAtee jlm_connect...@yahoo.com wrote:
but there is no discussion of which regular expression works to find the
end of paragraph marker that may be at the end of each line of text copied
from a webpage and pasted into a Writer document.
Do you mean $ (dollar
If the regular-expression technique given in later replies works, that's
terrific. If not, there is another way to make it happen by digging into
the ODT (if that is the document you have).
MINING THE ODT
It is possible to remove all of the hard line breaks in an ODF text (Writer
ODT)
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Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns
On 28/11/2011 at 20:49, John McAtee jlm_connect...@yahoo.com wrote:
but there is no discussion of which regular expression works to find the
end of paragraph marker that may
