Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Scott
On 18/11/2010 07:14, Brian Barker wrote: You will recall the problem: to take material pasted into Writer which appears as short lines, each of which is actually a separate paragraph, and to merge these into a single paragraph. Indeed. I have a related problem - verse pasted from a

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-18 Thread Hagar de l'Est
See also that topic, there is a link to a nice macro: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7t=2585 Hagar Le jeu. 18 nov. 2010 08:08:21 CET, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk a écrit : On 18/11/2010 07:14, Brian Barker wrote: You will recall the problem: to

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Scott
On 18/11/2010 19:45, Hagar de l'Est wrote: See also that topic, there is a link to a nice macro: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7t=2585 Thanks for the reference. Looks long - I'll take a proper look later. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Detwiler
Mike Scott wrote: On 18/11/2010 07:14, Brian Barker wrote: You will recall the problem: to take material pasted into Writer which appears as short lines, each of which is actually a separate paragraph, and to merge these into a single paragraph. Indeed. I have a related problem - verse

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:21 14/11/2010 -0500, Twayne Noname wrote: No help to me: I use OOo's native Replace command for that. See Tabs, newlines, paragraphs \t \n $ and the following lines for how to. At 16:54 14/11/2010 -0500, Twayne Noname wrote: ... IIRC I fixed it by using the $ expression. Take a look in

[users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread e-letter
That rings a bell somehow, but IIRC I fixed it by using the $ expression. Take a look in Help for replacing;tab stops (regular expressions) and see The original question should be solved by using regular expression, but another part of the help section is 'text documents', 'list of regular

[users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-14 Thread Twayne
In news:1289695759.2200.11.ca...@jeff-desktop, Jeffrey Needle jeff.nee...@gmail.com typed: I've found a marvelous answer to the problem of removing line breaks in Open Office text, etc. ... I hope this is of some help to you. No help to me: I use OOo's native Replace command for that. See

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-14 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-11-14 18:21:43 skrev Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com: In news:1289695759.2200.11.ca...@jeff-desktop, Jeffrey Needle jeff.nee...@gmail.com typed: I've found a marvelous answer to the problem of removing line breaks in Open Office text, etc. ... I hope this is of some help to you.

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-14 Thread David B Teague
On 11/14/2010 12:32 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-14 18:21:43 skrev Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com: In news:1289695759.2200.11.ca...@jeff-desktop, Jeffrey Needle jeff.nee...@gmail.com typed: I've found a marvelous answer to the problem of removing line breaks in Open Office text,

Re: [users] Re: Removing line breaks in Open Office writer, etc.

2010-11-14 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:26 14/11/2010 -0500, David B Teague wrote: On 11/14/2010 12:32 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Yes, but I think there was some serious problem with that, if I recall correctly. The problem was that \n in the search field is Shift+↵ and in the replace field it is ↵, but there is no way