On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, . <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit >> the width of the pages in which they are located. >> >> Presently, the paragraphs are about 4" wide and all have the >> "non-printing character" at the end of each text line that looks like a >> backward letter P with a line next to it. >> >> Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? >> > It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like > an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a > plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from > the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a > space. >
I saved the huge file as Plain Text.txt The file was then opened in Firefox but the vast amount of white space didn't go away even though I cut and pasted it back into Writer. It seems that the character at the end of each line is a carriage return. Any ideas what to do now? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
