Thanks for taking the time to post all that info, Brian. You really seem to
know your stuff. It's a pity that OOo is unable to handle these basic tasks (\n
doesn't even find line breaks, unfortunately). I'll just continue pasting text
into Word, and replacing ^p^p with ^p, to remove extra paragraph breaks.
I really wanted OOo to be competitive with Word, but I guess it's unrealistic
to expect OOo's unpaid volunteers to keep up with the salaried, stock-optioned
worker bees at Microsoft. Sigh.
--- Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 15:11 30/05/2008 -0700, Alan C. Baird wrote:
> >How do you find a paragraph break in OOo Writer 2.4?
>
> You don't, in fact.
>
> >The documentation suggests Ctrl-F, \n, but I can't get that to work...
>
> In the "Search for" box, that expression finds line breaks - inserted
> with Shift+Enter - not paragraph breaks.
>
> OpenOffice Writer does not see the paragraph break itself as an item
> that can be searched for and found. Instead, you need to search for
> whatever it is that you need, but to restrict your search to items
> that start or finish a paragraph using the regular expression terms
> "^", which anchors an expression to the beginning of a paragraph, and
> "$", which anchors it to the end of a paragraph.
>
> For example, a search for
> ^. (circumflex-dot)
> will find the first character of a paragraph, and
> .$ (dot-dollar)
> will find the last character of a paragraph. Remember to press More
> Options and tick "Regular expressions", of course.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
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