That won't help because the end-of-line indication is part of the structure, not the format of the document.
I'm afraid the only way I've ever found to solve this problem is to put a second hard return at the end of each paragraph, do a find and replace of a double hard return, replacing it with QQQ (or some other unlikely to occur character sequence), then doing a find and replace of single hard returns, replacing them with nothing, then doing a find and replace on QQQ, replacing the placeholder characters with hard returns. It's a lot of manual work, but it works. jomali On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Calvin Kim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 02/09/2012 05:46 PM, . wrote: > >> >> On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, >>> .<peace@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.**net<[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? >> >> When you paste back into LO. Did you use 'Paste Special'? > Try 'Paste Special' <Ctrl>+<Shift>+V and select 'Unformatted Text' > > cK > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected].** > org <users%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- 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
