Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string.

I use the alternative find and replace add-on and can recommend it.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, 13:15 W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof., <
robert.funnell@mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Honorato -
>
> I missed seeing your message. I think you can do what you want using the
> Alternative Find & Replace extension (
> https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer).
> As described at http://macrojtb.hys.cz/HelpAltSearch_en.html, specify \m
> to find manual page breaks and specify \r (in the Replace field) to remove
> them.
>
> - Robert
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mike Flannigan <mflan@mflan.com>
> Sent: March 26, 2024 08:59
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Cc: honoratomoreno@yahoo.es <honoratomoreno@yahoo.es>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks
> (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string.
>
>
> You did a good job of explaining your problem.
> Sorry we do not have an answer to your question.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 3/20/24 09:09, users+help@global.libreoffice.org wrote:
> > Subject:
> > [libreoffice-users] Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks
> > (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string.
> > From:
> > honorato moreno ruiz <honoratomoreno@yahoo.es>
> > Date:
> > 3/19/24, 14:04
> >
> > To:
> > "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> >
> >
> >   Good afternoon. Sorry my English
> > I need to replace Manual Page Breaks (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable
> character string.
> > My problem is that the "Search" function does not distinguish the Manual
> Page Break from the Paragraph Break (ENTER). That is, putting the
> expression "$" in the "Search" field gives me both the Page Breaks and the
> Paragraph Breaks. This way it replaces all of them, the page ones and the
> paragraph ones, which is not what I want (I need to keep the paragraph
> ones).
> > In other words, I can't find the regular expression to search for Page
> Break and it doesn't give me paragraph breaks at the same time.
> > There is a similar question in April 2023, which can be found by "Remove
> manual page breaks in Writer". But the solution does not work for me,
> because my colleague pjferra needed to replace the page breaks with
> paragraph breaks, and Kyodake responds, correctly, to that need in which it
> does not matter to replace the two types of breaks in the operation, since
> they are replaced by paragraph breaks.
> > Has this situation arisen before for you? Have you managed to solve it?
> > Thank you so much for your attention.
> > Honorato Moreno
>
>
>
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