On 08/18/09 17:44, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Hi all,
Googled high and low and nothing even close to a solution. Here's the
problem. I'm using mail merge to convert data in a spreadsheet into a nice
report formatted the way I want. Everything is great except that OOo wants
to put a hard page break following every record (83,000 of them) but I want
the records to flow from one to the other without even a line break. (Don't
panic! There are line breaks but they don't come at the end of every
record). So what I would like to do is one of the following:
1. Let OO insert the page breaks and then I use a search/replace to convert
them all to a single space, or
2. Convince mail merge somehow not to put hard page breaks at the end of
every record. Instead it can put whatever it wants as long as I can find it
using a regular expression (so a newline is fine with me. But Openoffice,
unlike WordPerfect (ahem ;)) makes it impossible to find page breaks.
Any solutions will be rewarded by warm thoughts directed towards the genius.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
try this extension:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AltSearch
Haven't tested it, but might be what you're searching.
Uwe
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