On Friday 26 January 2007 2:33 am, Peter Lazarus wrote:
> OOo 2 has an annoying problem, at least to me. If I delete empty
> paragraphs just before a heading paragraph, then the style of the
> heading changes. Why is this? Why should the style of a paragraph
> change because I delete unrelated paragraphs before? Is it because
> OO has to ape the stupidity of MS Word?
>
> This situation is particularly annoying when cleaning up documents
> produced by technical people. Empty paragraphs all over the place,
> especially at the end of a small section. I like to use the styles
> to create space around headings. So by deleting the empty paragraph
> marks, I have to then re-apply the heading style to a paragraph I
> did not touch.
To remove empty paragraphs without disturbing any styles, use
Find & Replace (Control + F). Enter
^$
in the Find box and leave the Replace box empty. Click "More Options"
and the check (tick) Regular Expressings. Finally click Replace all.
Explanation: ^ looks for the first character in a paragraph and $
looks for the last character. So this combination looks for no first
nor last character, i.e., an empty paragraph.
Suggestion, if you are not sure this will work, create a dummy
file with a mixture of paragraphs and empty ones. Apply it.
Dan
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