Re: [libreoffice-users] cannot find and replace paragraph break in writer

At 17:34 26/03/2020 -0400, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> I have a similar problem. I sometimes, 
> especially when copying and pasting text from a 
> WEB page, find 2 hard returns one after another. 
> How can I search for double hard returns, ¶¶, 
> and replace them with single hard returns, ¶.

Don't think of searching for what you are calling 
a "hard return", because it doesn't really exist. 
That pilcrow is just a marker, showing where 
there is a paragraph break; there really is 
nothing there! If you have two consecutive 
paragraph breaks, what you have between them is 
an empty paragraph - and it is this that you need to delete.

Just search for ^$ (caret - dollar) and replace with nothing.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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