Maybe I'm not understanding your problem, but ...
it should take less time to 'select all' -> paste into notepad
[thereby removing all formatting]
-> 'select all' and paste into a new LO blank document.
At this point, 'select all' and click on the formatting you desire;
then scan through to catch the footnotes to place them back in
line.
I've done this a few times; time is about 15 minutes; having to scan
through those footnotes which have become out of line ;-)
save time at this point by 'find'ing each by number ;-)
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:13 AM, lordmax tdf <lordmax-...@email.it> wrote:
Hi all
>
> Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk.
> I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end
>
> I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too
> many time.
> I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful.
> I can't use regex for automatize the work.
> It's really a sin.
>
> So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and then
> convert it.
> I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible
> evidently.
>
> Thanks to all
>
> Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto:
>
> When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ...
>> merely 'select all' -> copy -> paste to notepad -> all the
>> text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted
>> file
>>
>>> that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text
>>> file
>>> and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I
>>> wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your
>>> content,
>>> such as footnotes.
>>>
>>> Good luck.
>>> Virgil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: lordmax tdf
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
>>> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>>> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
>>> I'm working on many ebook in epub format.
>>> Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's
>>> wonderful
>>>
>>> My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess
>>> with styles, fonts, etc
>>> Really a chaos.
>>>
>>> I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found
>>> nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet
>>>
>>> My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title.
>>> In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or
>>> more blank lines all in header1 style
>>>
>>> I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply
>>> change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles
>>>
>>> I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice
>>> forum but I haven't find any solutions.
>>>
>>> Can you help me?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
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