Mike Scott wrote:
On 18/11/2010 07:14, Brian Barker wrote:
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You will recall the problem: to take material pasted into Writer which
appears as short lines, each of which is actually a separate paragraph,
and to merge these into a single paragraph.
Indeed. I have a related problem - verse pasted from a non-OOo source
I find usually has line ends marked as paragraph breaks. These should
really be changed to the equivalent of shift-return so each verse
counts as a single paragraph for formatting purposes, while 'end of
paragraph' should correspond to end of verse.
At present I go through the hard way with 'delete'. Tedious. The
problem always being that each time this crops up, it's quicker to do
it the hard way rather than hunt for a better method ready for next time.
I've encountered this situation twice in the last couple of days, when
taking text that someone submitted to me for a newsletter, and putting
it into newsletter form.
A search on Help for the term "Removing line breaks" did the trick. Here
is the process (from Help):
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Use the AutoCorrect feature to remove line breaks that occur within
sentences. Unwanted line breaks can occur when you copy text from
another source and paste it into a text document.
This AutoCorrect feature only works on text that is formatted with the
"Default" paragraph style.
1.Choose Tools - AutoCorrect Options .
2.On the Options tab, ensure that Combine single line paragraphs if
length greater than 50% is selected. To change the minimum percentage
for the line length, double-click the option in the list, and then enter
a new percentage.
3.Click OK.
4.Select the text containing the line breaks that you want to remove.
5.In the Apply Style box on the Formatting bar, choose Default.
6.Choose Format - AutoCorrect - Apply.
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