I am switching from Office 97 to Open Office, am a newbie, and need a little help.
Not infrequently I get a file in which each line is a paragraph (terminated by a paragraph mark). Usually there are two paragraph marks or a paragraph mark followed by a tab to delineate real paragraphs. The last instance of this came from an email message from somebody that I pasted into Writer for reformatting.
I would like to remove all the paragraph marks at end of line but keep a paragraph mark at end of paragraph. Under Word 97 the following is a well known way to accomplish this:
1. Do a find/replace on the double paragraph marks, paragraph/tab marks. Replace these with a manual line break or some other special unused character.
2. Find/replace all paragraph marks with nothing thus deleting them.
3. Find/replace the manual line break (or other special character) with a paragraph mark.
Is there any way to accomplish this in Writer. It is important to me if I am going to convert to Open Office.
Thanks
Ralph
[Solved] Removing Paragraph per line of text
[Solved] Removing Paragraph per line of text
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Re: Removing Paragraph per line of text
Try this thread: How to delete line breaks with global command?.
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Re: Removing Paragraph per line of text
I have written a macro to do exactly that.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=6429
If you are new to macros see this.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=7995
That topic has been deleted in oooforum. The equivalent is here: [Tutorial] How to install a code snippet.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=6429
If you are new to macros see this.
That topic has been deleted in oooforum. The equivalent is here: [Tutorial] How to install a code snippet.
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Re: Removing Paragraph per line of text
[Solved] My problem was finding a way to represent a paragraph mark in Find/Replace. It was not obvious to me from reading Help>Regular Expressions that the needed symbol was $ and the Find/Replace>Regular Expression box needed checking. (Also ^$ is an empty paragraph, although this is obvious from the Help file.) Good writeup at http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/ ... d_rep.html
Re: Removing Paragraph per line of text
Be careful when do large document with Find & Replace. When you delete paragraph breaks you form a larger paragraph and OOo has a paragraph character limit of 64K and excess text will be lost. Had to work around that in the macro referenced in the link above.
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Re: Removing Paragraph per line of text
For the record: Issue 17171 - Paragraph cannot be longer than 65534 characters. Any interested user should subscribe and vote for it (up to 2 votes per issue).JohnV wrote:Be careful when do large document with Find & Replace. When you delete paragraph breaks you form a larger paragraph and OOo has a paragraph character limit of 64K and excess text will be lost.
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