Richard Detwiler wrote: > I have a somewhat obscure problem that I'm struggling with. I'm the > newsletter editor for a local club. I do the newsletter in OOo Writer. > A big part of this newsletter is listing results of our events > (athletic competition). I obtain these results from our web site, > which has them in a space-delimited form such as the example below > (they "look right" when they are in a fixed width font like Courier): > > 1. Zachary Smith 17:42 > 2. Matthew and Jennifer Brown 31:02 > 3. Elizabeth Jones 35:00 > > I can pull them into the Writer document as is, but the problem is > they almost never fit into a column with the number of spaces that are > used on the web site. I find it best if I replace the string of spaces > with a tab stop, so I have better flexibility in moving the tab stop > around to get things to look "right" in the newsletter. > > So far I have been manually highlighting the string of spaces and > replacing them with a tab stop. This is quite time consuming, since > there are a lot of events and many lines of results for each event. You could use a macro that would convert two or more spaces to tab stops. I don't have one, but you should be able to use Google and search for such an item.
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