On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 06:26 +1000, Jeff Shrowder wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > 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 > > The shortcoming with this is that it only removes paragraph breaks, > not line breaks, which are a different character. It doesn't rewrap > text which is what I understand the OP wants to achieve.
Rewrap you achieve in other ways. If indeed the OP is talking about soft returns, it means that these have been inserted by other means as importing plain text makes paragraph breaks of line terminations be they CR-LF combos or simply LFs. In any case, one can use regex to convert these too. > > The list of regular expressions in OOo Help doesn't address that "line > break"/rewrap situation. > I would suggest that to format the text after removing paragraph breaks ome should select the text and use Format > Default. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
