On Friday 20 May 2005 22:28, David O Smith wrote:
> I am trying to replace MS Office with OpenOffice (in the guise of
> NeoOfficeJ, since I use a Mac with OS X.
>
> One of the few things I've not been able to figure out how to do is to
> reformat a document. I'm on one particular mailing list and I like to
> have all the mails that I read in a similar format.
>
> To do this I wish to do the following:
>
> 1. Find all instances of 2 successive newlines and replace them with a
> tab.
> 2. Now find all other instances of a newline and replace them with a
> space.
> 3. Finally replace the tab stops with 2 newlines.
>
> Simple enough under (pardon my language) MS Word. How the heck do I do
> this under OpenOffice?
Hi Dave,
You need to use "regular expressions". have a look at "Help" -> "Contents"
and search for regualr expressions.
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