Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem

On 02/09/2012 05:32 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 00:19, . <peace@aleksandrsolzhenitsyn.net> wrote:
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> > I have a hundreds of paragraphs that need to be fixed so that they fit
> > the width of the pages in which they are located.
> >
> > Presently, the paragraphs are about 4" wide and all have the
> > "non-printing character" at the end of each text line that looks like a
> > backward letter P with a line next to it.
> >
> > Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem?
> It sounds to me that the text came from a hard-wrapped text file (like
> an email). A workaround would be to save the paragraph contents to a
> plain text file, open it in a web browser, and then copy the text from
> the browser. Web browsers treat all whitespace as they would treat a
> space.

I saved the huge file as Plain Text.txt

The file was then opened in Firefox but the vast amount of white space
didn't go away even though I cut and pasted it back into Writer.

It seems that the character at the end of each line is a carriage return.

Any ideas what to do now?


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