Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

At 15:59 23/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett 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?

Yes.  First recombining the lines into paragraphs:
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 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.

Now to remove empty paragraphs:
o In the Find & Replace dialogue, click More Options, and then tick 
"Regular expressions".
o Search for ^$ - that's circumflex-dollar - and replace with nothing.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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