On 16 Jan 2006 at 12:47, Jonathon Coombes wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:31 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > I'll be wearing out my welcome, but here I go
> > again. I was presented with a 17 page list of
> > names and relevant page numbers. This was
> > created: sometimes using spaces, sometimes
> > default tabs and sometimes user defined tabs.
> > The whole looks like a dogs breakfast and
...
> Now, setting the tabs - I take it you placed
> three user-defined tab placements on the ruler?
> This works no matter what text you have highlighted.
> If you want to adjust the tabs themselves, then it
> will be different for each one, as they are probably
> a different paragraph for each line/record.
...
Another couple of suggestions.

If you have perl around, it's a one-liner to tidy up the separators.

If not, you could call the whole thing a csv file and read into calc 
specifying tab and space as separator, and merge separators (always 
assuming no blank fields - messy if so!), then you can either print 
from the spreadsheet, or re-export as csv (tab sep) and load into 
'writer'.

Within 'writer', if you want to set tabs everywhere the same, select 
all the text (^A) and set tab stops. Or use a style as others have 
suggested.

I think :-)
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