Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 12 June 2006 19:22, JimD wrote: >> I have an MS Word "HTML" file. I used Lynx to dump it to text and >> now I want to get it to pdf. I opened it in OOo and saved as an >> OpenDocument. However, all the paragraphs are hard wrapped at 80 >> characters so the text does not take up the whole page. >> >> Is there an easy way to go through the 100+ pages and just join the >> lines of each paragraph so that they will be flowed correctly in >> OOo? >> >> I have the dumped text file and the OOo file and both have the >> paragraphs hard wrapped at column 80. I would think there would >> have to be some simple tool out there to go through the plain text >> file and just join all the lines of a paragraph, no? > > You already have a OOo file so that's a good place to start. > > First, check on Tools -> Autocorrect -> Options that "Remove blank > paragraphs" is checked. Then highlight all the text you want to > modify and do Format -> AutoFormat -> Apply. > > This should remove hard line returns in the middle of paras then > remove blank paras. Then print to pdf.
Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
