Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem

Hi :)
Wow!!  Again!  LibreOffice has some pretty awesome features.  I guess MS Office does too but they 
don't have Brian Barker or Regina (or Pedro, Alex, Cor ... and so on and on) on their help lists.
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Fri, 10/2/12, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

From: Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 10 February, 2012, 4:15

At 17:19 09/02/2012 -0500, Dottie Noname wrote:
> 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.

In other words, each line is actually a separate paragraph.

> Is there a quick way to get rid of this problem?

Yes.

o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options, and tick "Combine single line paragraphs if 
length greater than 50%".
o Go to Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply.

Notes:

o You may need to reduce that value of 50% to make the facility work properly in your case.  Click 
on the text of the option and the Edit... button below will light up and enable you to edit the 50% 
value to a suitable smaller one.

o How are your real paragraph breaks indicated in your text?  There will need to be consecutive 
paragraph marks to show these if you are not to end up with a single enormous paragraph, of course. 
 (This will mean that the text has an empty paragraph between each pair of real paragraphs - though 
you may think of these as "blank lines".)  If you need to add these, you may find it easier to do 
so first.

o Applying AutoCorrect will make other changes to your text - which you may not want.  You can 
avoid this in two ways: either switch off unwanted changes in the AutoCorrect dialogue or - more 
easily - use Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply and Edit Changes instead.  Then choose Edit Changes 
when challenged.  Now click the Comment column header in the Accept or Reject AutoFormat Changes 
panel; this sorts all the changes of a particular type together.  Select all the "Combine 
paragraphs" lines together (using Shift-click or Shift-arrow in the usual way) and click Accept.  
Now click Reject All to reject all other changes.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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