Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice

Hi :)  
Styles and Templates are a really fast way of imposing new formatting after you have converted it 
all into plain text.  It might sound like something that is going to take ages but you would be 
surprised at how fast you can get through it the way people are recommending.  It surprised me!  

With Word i had often spent hours trying to un-mess documents from other people but Writer's use of 
styles makes it fast and simple.  

Another advantage with Writer's use of styles is that you can change the font throughout a document 
really quickly.  Just right-click on the "text body" style and change the font there.  Same with 
the "default" style and then as you go through other styles you have used you may find some have 
already changed automatically.  

I sometimes select a large area of text and force it to change style between a few different styles 
that i don't want the text to appear in and then settle it all as "text-body".  That usually clears 
a lot of the messes.  Then just go through and select headings and sub-headings and set their style 
as "heading1" or "heading 2" or whatever is the appropriate level.  

See Chapter 3 in the Getting Started Guide as it probably has even faster ways of getting through 
the document
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)  







> ________________________________
> From: lordmax tdf <lordmax-tdf@email.it>
> To: 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:13
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
>
> Hi all
>
> Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk.
> I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end
>
> I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too 
> many time.
> I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful.
> I can't use regex for automatize the work.
> It's really a sin.
>
> So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and 
> then convert it.
> I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible evidently.
>
> Thanks to all
>
> Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto:
> >          When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ...
> >                merely 'select all' -> copy -> paste to notepad -> all the
> > text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line  ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file
> > > that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file
> > > and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I
> > > wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content,
> > > such as footnotes.
> > >
> > > Good luck.
> > > Virgil
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: lordmax tdf
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
> > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
> > > I'm working on many ebook in epub format.
> > > Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful
> > >
> > > My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess
> > > with styles, fonts, etc
> > > Really a chaos.
> > >
> > > I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found
> > > nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet
> > >
> > > My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title.
> > > In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or
> > > more blank lines all in header1 style
> > >
> > > I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply
> > > change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles
> > >
> > > I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice
> > > forum but I haven't find any solutions.
> > >
> > > Can you help me?
> > >
> > > Thanks
>
>
>
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