Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

On 23 March 2012 14:59, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> Interesting problem:  An email text is received which you need to format for
> publication.
> The email uses a carriage return at the end of each line, and a double
> carriage return
> for paragraph spacing.  What I'd like to do is remove the cr's at the end of
> each line, so
> the text can be justified, and turn the double cr's into paragraph controls,
> or just leave
> as double cr's.  Obviously all this can be done a line at a time by hand,
> but it's a pain.
> Is there any way someone can suggest to automate this?

Search and replace #1 - search for double carriage return and replace
with manual page break

Search and replace #2 - search for carriage return and replace with space

Search and replace #3 - search for manual page break and replace with
(double) carriage return



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