Uwe Fischer wrote: > 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 Hi Uwe, I installed and tried out the extension you suggested. These page breaks at record ends refuse to die. I can search for them using \m and it keeps finding them, replacing them with a space and at the end of the task, all the page breaks are back and nothing has changed. Only deleting the two \n in a row seems to get rid of them. ???? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Please do not send me copies of list mail. I read the lists. Thanks!
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