On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 13:38 +0100, A. Beal wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> I am currently using Open Office 1.1.4 and although it is generally very 
> good, the 'Find & Replace' function seems very limited. I tried to use it 
> to strip out unnecessary paragraph breaks (carriage returns), which can 
> easily be done using 'Find and Replace' with most wordprocessors. However I 
> could not find a way to get Open Office to search for paragraph breaks. I 
> tried Regular Expressions but the list in Help does not include paragraph 
> breaks - and using the standard Regular Expression for a paragraph break 
> (/r) did not work (it simply found the letter 'r'.
> Am I missing something, or is this part of Open Office as limited as it 
> appears? (Compare it with WordPerfect which allows all kinds of things to 
> be searched for and replaced.)
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
> Yours,
> Alasdair Beal

FAQ item, see
http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/word_processing/016.html
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