From: Gene Young [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Re: WRITER: Search for Special Characters, Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X
VLM TechSubs wrote: > From: John & Mary Linge [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 6:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Re: WRITER: Search for Special Characters, > Invisible Characters, Character Styles, Markers of Type X > > I've tried this on OOO 3.0 on both Windows and Mac, so it should work > generally. > > Select Find and Replace > Select More Options > Select Regular Expressions > Enter $ in the Search For field > Click Find > > You will see the end of paragraph selected. You can replace it with > any character or character combination except for non-printing > characters. If you end the combination with \n, the end of paragraph character is retained. > Otherwise, it is removed and the paragraph is merged with the next > paragraph. I did not check to see which paragraph formats are retained. > > The help tells you that, to find and replace empty paragraphs, enter > ^$ in the Find field. If you replace it with nothing, the empty > paragraph is deleted. > > By the way, examining the format of the document as saved on disk > tells you nothing about how it is represented in memory. > > John > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > John, thank you! Would you be willing to say where in the help you > located this information? > Elchanan > In OO help, search for List of Regular Expressions. It will take you to a table of all sorts of good information. -- Gene Y. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ohhhhh! I wouldn't have thought of that on my own, thank you! Elchanan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
