Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns

I know that ^p works in MS Word but it does not work in LO 3.4.3 with regular expression turned on 
or without.

The help discusses removing the Line break that is entered with the Shift+Enter and replacing with 
a hard return as if the enter key was pressed but there is no discussion of which regular 
expression works to find the end of paragraph marker that may be at the end of each line of text 
copied from a webpage and pasted into a Writer document.

Interesting question.

John McAtee




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> From: Bob Houston <bob_houston@hotmail.com>
> To: Users Global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 9:55 AM
> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns
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> Hi to all,
> I use ^p to designate paragraph returns in LO and I think it works in MS Word as well.  I have a 
> need to remove blank lines (empty paragraphs) from time to time.
> I search for ^p^p and replace with ^p (the ^ (caret) is above the 6 ).
> I'm not sure what a 'soft return' is, but to take out the hard return and just let the text flow, 
> I search for ^p and replace with ' ' (one blank) assuming there was no blanks after the .  before 
> the hard return.  If you need to take out tabs ^t will work.
> Bob
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> > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:47:41 -0800
> > From: pedlino@gmail.com
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns
> >
> > Hi Tom and e-letter
> >
> > I think you both missed step number 2 in Miroslaw's answer
> >
> > > 2. In "More options" check "Regular expressions". 
> >
> > Although this is not quite user friendly, it works perfectly and it is good
> > to know that LO has this feature.
> >
> > I'm keeping this one on my personal Tips and Tricks list ;)
> >
> > Thank you, Miroslaw!
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