"Paul B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm trying to replace '^-' (or, using more conventional new line notation, '\n-') with ' -' - that is, I'm trying to collapse paragraphs - but tying the search string to the end of the previous paragraph doesn't do it. That's probably because a multiline marker would be needed - another thing I didn't see listed in Help.
Much the easiest way to do this, which works almost infallibly, is simply to go to format->autoformat->apply. I just cleaned up a 4,000 word email like that with only two misjudgements of where the paragraph breaks should come. All the other returns were unwrapped and the paragraph breaks were preserved.
This really ought to be in one of the FAQ collections
Good tool to know about, and one that will come in handy. But it did nothing for my problem. For the following example
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
- Mar 11:24
it only changed the Default paragraph style to Text Body followed by List 1. I think it chose a list style for the second para because of the leading hyphen. So I tried it after deleting the hyphen and space, and sure enough got all Text Body, but still no adoption of the orphans.
So, whatever auto format's merits, it's not doing what I need it to. What is needed here is a simple way to search for hard paragraph returns, so the user can do what he needs to. I can't understand why the soft return would be allowed for in searching, but not the far more often used hard. The soft return was even given the symbol, \n, almost universally used for the hard.
Thanks, Paul
-- Using OOo 1.9.90.1 on Win XP.
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