thanks; some more good tips.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Hi :) > Styles and Templates are a really fast way of imposing new formatting > after you have converted it all into plain text. It might sound like > something that is going to take ages but you would be surprised at how fast > you can get through it the way people are recommending. It surprised me! > > With Word i had often spent hours trying to un-mess documents from other > people but Writer's use of styles makes it fast and simple. > > Another advantage with Writer's use of styles is that you can change the > font throughout a document really quickly. Just right-click on the "text > body" style and change the font there. Same with the "default" style and > then as you go through other styles you have used you may find some have > already changed automatically. > > I sometimes select a large area of text and force it to change style > between a few different styles that i don't want the text to appear in and > then settle it all as "text-body". That usually clears a lot of the > messes. Then just go through and select headings and sub-headings and set > their style as "heading1" or "heading 2" or whatever is the appropriate > level. > > See Chapter 3 in the Getting Started Guide as it probably has even faster > ways of getting through the document > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications > > Good luck and regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > > > From: lordmax tdf <lordmax-...@email.it> > >To: > >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org > >Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:13 > >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in > libreoffice > > > >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 > >>> > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
