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[Solved] Find & Replace paragraph marks
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:44 pm
by stephenbuck415
I have a plain text document that has a paragraph mark at the end of each line.
I want to select all but the last line of the paragraph, find the specific paragraph marks and replace them with a single space.
How do I find paragraph marks?
In MS Word I can select select the paragraph from a drop down menu.
Thanks
Re: Find & Replace paragraph marks
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:36 pm
by acknak
Have you read the
Survival guide for the forum?
Sorry if you tried and came up empty, but we encourage everyone to try a search before asking a question. This particular question comes up very frequently.
A search for "Replace paragraph marks" gives me this thread (among others):
Removing Paragraph per line of text.
The bottom line is that OOo Writer does not handle this common task very easily or well, but it can be done with a little effort.
If you can't find what you need in that thread, just ask here.
Re: Find & Replace paragraph marks
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:23 pm
by JohnV
I have written a macro to do this task.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic ... ight=ascii
As this is your first post you may need help dealing with macros.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=7995
Re: Find & Replace paragraph marks
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:52 pm
by stephenbuck415
Both replies are useful, thank you.
This is solved.
Thank you.