Important: where I wrote Ctrl Enter, that should have been Shift Enter.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:31:59 +0000
Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:52:48 +0000
> Tommy Skoglund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Suddenly it is impossible to write any longer in my writer-document. Why?
> > The document has been longer earlier. 150 000 word. Its a novel, and very
> > important for me to fix the document. I have tried to copy latest 24 hours
> > text mass into earlyer version, but the there still seems to be a maximum
> > length, it stops and I can't write any longer. Seems to be some kind of
> > "coding" to make that happened. I can't "neutralize" my document and fix
> > the font etc again without ruining loads of bold and italic effects. So
> > please help me asap. I also tried to duplicate document, reinstall Open
> > Office, my Mac etc.
> >
> > Regards
> > Tommy
>
> I regularly handle documents in OpenOffice of a million words and several
> thousand pages, so size is not a problem.
>
> OpenOffice cannot handle paragraphs of longer than 64K characters; this
> amounts to about 15 US Letter/A4 pages. If one marks paragraph by pressing
> Enter at the end of each paragraph that situation does not arise, but if one,
> as a habit from older word processors, marks paragraphs by Ctrl Enter, then
> one can quickly reach such a limit. Turning on /View /Non printing
> characters (a toggle command) will show paragraphs terminated by a backwards
> P character (recte: a Pilcrow); if Ctrl Enter has been used, the paragraph
> marker will be a left pointing hooked arrow.
>
> The fix is simple: on a _COPY_ of your file (in case of disaster), open Find
> and Replace. In Find box enter \n, in Replace box enter \n (different
> meanings in each box). Drop More options and select "Regular expressions".
> Press Replace all. That should fix the problem, and to prevent it happening
> in future, only mark paragraphs by pressing Enter.
>
> If that doesn't fix your file, you have the unaltered original to return to.
>
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> Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
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