Hi :) Wow!! Again! LibreOffice has some pretty awesome features. I guess MS Office does too but they don't have Brian Barker or Regina (or Pedro, Alex, Cor ... and so on and on) on their help lists. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Fri, 10/2/12, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 10 February, 2012, 4:15 At 17:19 09/02/2012 -0500, Dottie Noname wrote: > 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. In other words, each line is actually a separate paragraph. > Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem? Yes. o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options, and tick "Combine single line paragraphs if length greater than 50%". o Go to Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply. Notes: o You may need to reduce that value of 50% to make the facility work properly in your case. Click on the text of the option and the Edit... button below will light up and enable you to edit the 50% value to a suitable smaller one. o How are your real paragraph breaks indicated in your text? There will need to be consecutive paragraph marks to show these if you are not to end up with a single enormous paragraph, of course. (This will mean that the text has an empty paragraph between each pair of real paragraphs - though you may think of these as "blank lines".) If you need to add these, you may find it easier to do so first. o Applying AutoCorrect will make other changes to your text - which you may not want. You can avoid this in two ways: either switch off unwanted changes in the AutoCorrect dialogue or - more easily - use Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply and Edit Changes instead. Then choose Edit Changes when challenged. Now click the Comment column header in the Accept or Reject AutoFormat Changes panel; this sorts all the changes of a particular type together. Select all the "Combine paragraphs" lines together (using Shift-click or Shift-arrow in the usual way) and click Accept. Now click Reject All to reject all other changes. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- 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 -- 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
