Help > OpenOffice.org Help > Contents > Index > Search term > regular expressions;list of seems like a good place to start.
You might also like to have a look at some of the guides, HOW-TOs et cetera at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ to help you get oriented. On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:45 -0500, Jaime Torres wrote: > Thanks Chuck! That's exactly what I was looking for. > > $ (dollar sign) = line break > > Do you know where I could find a list of other "regular expressions" > correspondences with page breaks, column breaks and other paragraph formats? > > Regards, > JT > > Chuck wrote: > > Jaime Torres wrote: > >> I usually have to copy the text from the bodies of my email messages and > >> paste them into a OO Writer document. As you should imagine the line > >> breaks are kept exactly the same as in the email message. Here is an > >> example: > >> > >> This text is the body on an email message that > >> somebody sent to me not long ago. Can you see > >> the line breaks? > >> > >> I need to find a way to get rid of the line breaks to have complete > >> paragraphs. For my example this should be the result: > >> > >> This text is the body on an email message that somebody sent to me not > >> long ago. Can you see the line breaks? > >> > >> Is there a way to tell OO Writer to replace line breaks with a single > >> space? > >> > >> Thanks in advance for your time and help. > >> > >> Regards, > >> JT > >> > > > > Try this. > > > > Select the parapraph, then open the Find/Replace dialog. Put a check > > next to "regular expresssions", enter a dollar sign in the "search for" > > box, and a space in the "replace with box". Make sure "current select > > only" is checked as well. Then press the "replace all" button. > > > > Maybe there's a better way but I don't know it. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------enig7C21ECA45AB756F87DC91F33-- -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
