Brian, I had actually tried everything that you suggested
and no joy. It is line breaks (\n) rather than paragraph
end that I am trying to get, because I want the paragraph
ends/breaks to remain. Even so, I did try the paragraph
end ($) and that does not work either.
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> Did a little searching and \n matches the type of line
> break you get with a shift+enter.
>
> I think what you are looking for is to replace a paragraph
> end which is just $ on the search line by itself.
>
> So in libre/open office go to edit-> find/replace, then click
> on more options and select "regular expressions". Then in the
> "search for" field put a $ all by itself and on the "replace with"
> field put a space. Then just click "replace all" and it will
> make everything continuous and word wrap on the page naturally.
>
> Brian Cluff
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> On 04/16/2013 04:32 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>> How to remove line breaks in odt paragraphs?
>>
>> Searching the 'net turns up no solution that I can get to work.
>>
>> Some suggested using edit > find and replace to replace "\n" with
>> a
>> space after checking "regular expressions" but that did not work
>> for
>> me.
>>
>> Some suggested installing an "altsearch" extension (which was
>> ridiculously difficult to find). Searching for "altsearch" at the
>> libre office extensions page does not find it. Eventually I did
>> find
>> it (under a different name) and installed it, but it also does not
>> work for me. Please refer to this screen capture:
>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/altsearch.jpg
>>
>>
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