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

       Maybe I'm not understanding your problem, but ...
           it should take less time to 'select all' -> paste into notepad
[thereby removing all formatting]
                -> 'select all' and paste into a new LO blank document.
       At this point, 'select all' and click on the formatting you desire;
          then scan through to catch the footnotes to place them back in
line.

       I've done this a few times; time is about 15 minutes; having to scan
through those footnotes which have become out of line  ;-)
          save time at this point by 'find'ing each by number  ;-)



On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:13 AM, lordmax tdf <lordmax-tdf@email.it> wrote:

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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