[Solved] Removing hard line breaks from text

[RCL85]

Hello,

I'm working with text imported from an OCRd PDF.

The OCR software has retained the original line breaks, and I need to remove them all so that the text wraps around naturally to the margins. Is there any way I can do this automatically in Writer (rather than manually, which will take a very long time)?

Thanks

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[LastUnicorn]

Does this help: Using Replace to remove line breaks

[floris v]

There are a few ways to do that:
1. Use Tools - AutoCorrect - Apply. First tick all options that you want in Tools - AutoCorrect - AutoCorrect Options, Options tab. Scroll down to the bottom, where you will find the most important ones.
2. Use Find/Replace to find all line breaks (\n) and replace them with a space. You have to enable Regular expressions. Downside: this may turn your entire document into a single paragraph.

[RoryOF]

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Downside: this may turn your entire document into a single paragraph.

And OpenOffice does not like paragraphs longer than 64K characters. LibreOffice is better for long paragraphs.

[LastUnicorn]

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[RCL85]

Does this help: Using Replace to remove line breaks

That worked, thanks!