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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:22:56PM +0100, Peter M Le Mare wrote: > What I don't seem to do in L Office that I was able to do in MsWord was to > edit copied and pasted text that is in short lines so as to reformat it in > continuous lines. To do this I could use 'find and replace' but although > you can put into find any letter or word and then replace it with > something even a space or another word and it also had some extra non > printing or hidden things like paragraph spaces and whatever the thing is > that ends the line in an e-mail or webpage. In L Office it has find and > replace under edit and then it gives you a window and you fill in 'Search > for' and then fill in 'Replace with' and then go to 'replace' or 'replace > all'. However you cannot or I don't know how to put in a paragraph break > or what ever that line break is called in e-mail etc. Thus if you wish to > turn some text in an e-mail or copied and pasted from a webpage into a > normal document then one has to painstakingly go line by line deleting the > end of the line and pressing the space bar open a long document this is > very difficult With Find and Replace click the "More Options" button. This will give you the following options - Regular Expressions - Selection Choose both Then look up on the web "Open Office Regex Expressions" Once you have chosen Regex then the commands are - Find $ - Replace " " (ie a single blank space) Then will find all the paragraph breaks and replace them with the single space. Once you learn the regex instructions you can do most changes. If you want to add a paragraph space then you replace \n (I think) If you go to Macros (under the tool menu) then you can set up a series of commands to one macro and link that to a series of key strokes: much faster <snip> > > As for my printing problem I have tried asking in Launchpad but not yet > got an understandably reply. I have found that if I go when a page is > booted up in L O and go to file menu then 'print settings' then find the > printer and go to 'properties' and then to 'device' towards the bottom is > printer language and this show PDF but if I change it to Post Script then > the page having gone back to it prints perfectly. BUT it needs doing every > separate document and will not stay set or as default!! I have tried going > to print settings under system settings but one can't get to this property > there! Any suggestions as it is a pain to do it every time I even type a > new document. My printer is HP Laser Jet 1018 but I have no idea why my > recently gifted Epson Photo R330 just will not print any longer: it just > stays as 'processing'. when this happened previously with the HP I had to > switch it off and switch it on again but it doesn't work on the epson. > > Not that I should mention that I never got my Brother multi task printer > to work for years - since getting Ubunto Linux!! Have you downloaded the Brother printer drivers? If you look on the brother website for Linux drivers, they give full instructions > -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 or 0x3184D537 Smime Fingerprint 98:24:AE:F7:D1:D6:E5:A0:F0:55:2F:40:42:5F:46:24:F9:52:f4:30 Tue Oct 25 19:59:38 BST 2011
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