Dotan Cohen wrote:
In Writer 2.4, have an odf document with two lists. One is 51 items
long (1-51) and should not be a list! Each list item should be a
separate line. How can I convert this list to separate lines? The only
way that I've found is to backspace from the beginning of each line to
the previous line, replace it with a space, and then after doing that
51 times replacing the spaces with carriage returns. Is there a better
way?
The second list is on separate lines, however, it should be a list!
How can I take a series of separate lines and convert them into a
numbered list?
To clarify, this is problem A:
1. Dog
2. Cat
3. Mouse
which should be:
Dog
Cat
Mouse
The answer to this one depends on whether the list is recognized as a
numbered list by Writer. If so, select the text of the whole list; the
icon for numbered lists should be highlighted. Click it to toggle to the
paragraph form.
If the numbers were entered manually, you need to use a regular
expression with "^[0-9]*\. " (without the quotes: caret, left square
bracket, digit 0, dash, digit 9, right square bracket, asterisk,
backslash, period, space) as the search string with no replace string.
Select the whole list, and make sure that under the Find and Replace
More Options the options for regular expressions and current selection
only are selected, and Replace All. Translation: find strings at the
beginning of a paragraph that consist of digits followed by a period and
a space, and replace them with a null string.
This is problem B:
Ford
Mazda
BMW
which should be:
1. Ford
2. Mazda
3. BMW
This one is like the simpler version above: select the whole list, then
click the numbered list icon in the toolbar. You may need to modify the
list style, or unindent, if you want the list to start on the left margin.
Thanks in advance for any assistance in straightening this file out.
Dotan Cohen
Hope this helps.
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