On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 21:11 +0100, David O Smith wrote: > At 12:11 pm on Saturday, May 21, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (CPHennessy) said: > > > You need to use "regular expressions". have a look at "Help" -> > > "Contents" and search for regualr expressions. > > Hello, there. > > Thanks for the advice. I've been through the regular expressions, and I > cannot find a set that do this job. For example: > > \n (which I would expect to locate a newline) doesn't find anything. > ^$ will find a blank line, but $^$ won't locate a newline followed by a > blank line. > > I even tried \.$^$ Now that found "." followed by newline and a blank > line. I could even replace that with a tab using \.\t (to retain the "." > at the end of the sentence. > > Find \.\t worked OK, but replace with \.$^$ put exactly those characters > in the text. > > And I could not find anyway of finding a newline (on its own) and > replacing it by a space. > > Could you give me specific details of how to do this, please. It's not > only annoying and frustrating, but, as a Unix guru of 16+ years it makes > me feel very stupid, too.
The User Guide, http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html explains this somewhat better than Help. Please see around page 39. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
