On 12:08 Sun 19 Aug , Curt Eiworth wrote:
> I needt to make a list of words from articles by searching for space
> characters and exchange for newline. "\n" doesn't work, nor does plain\n,
> [:\n:] or {\n} and combinations.
>
> Example: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs back
>
> should convert to
>
> The
> quick
> brown
> fox
> jumps
> over
> the
> lazy
> dogs
> back
>
> I've tried regular expressions but don't really know what I'm doing and OO
> help is no help. Can't copy and paste control characters.
>
> Solution, anyone??
>
> I'm running OpenOffice 2.0.4 on Windows XP. What p****s me off is that this
> is a really simple operation in M$Word.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
Works for me in OO 2.0 on Debian. Just tick regular expressions box,
search for space(ie hit the spacebar) and replace with \n
XP and MS win in general I believe use different line endings to *nix.
Regards, John
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