On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:32:35AM -0600, Dan Lewis wrote:
> On Saturday February 10 2007 7:39 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 08:10:22PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
> > > Gary Kline wrote:
> > > >... So my question was how-to change embedded tabs to spaces.
> > >
> > > This will change every tab to a single space:
> > >
> > > Search for: \t
> > > Replace with: (type a single space)
> > > Regular expressions: ON
> > >
> > > To accomplish the same in vi:
> > > :1,$s/\t/ /g
> >
> > I've been using vi ever since Bill Joy finished it,
> > <<whenever-ago>>, but there are still tricks I don't know.
> > [[ My fingers know most of it cold, tho:) ]]
> >
> > Thanks for the regex deal for OO. I may have used '\t' and a
> > space (or '\040'). Been too long ago.
> >
> > Can you clue me in on how to change inline block papagraphs to
> > paragraphs with 5-space indents? I've had to do it by hand for
> > the most part. --There may be a pop-up or dialog that permits
> > indenting under the Formatting header. I've got a 100 page ppaper
> > due this year, and while it willl not be tht much of a burden to
> > by-hand format everything, _isn't that what word-processors are
> > for_?
> >
> > gary
> >
> > > <Joe
>
> Use the F11 key to open the Styles and Formating window. Make
> sure the Paragraph Styles icon is selected (icon on the left). Right
> click Default and select Modify from the context menu. Use the Indent
> and Spacing tab to set how you want each paragraph to be. Click OK.
> All of the paragraphs should immediately change to what you just set
> (all 100 pages of paragraphs).
>
Exactly, thanks for the info. What I was missing before was the
"Select All" (Alt-E, Alt-A:: with the cursor over the text.)
gary
> Dan
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