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Edit > Find & Replace > More Options Select 'Regular expressions' Put '$' (withouth the quote marks) into the 'Search for' box. Put a space into the 'Replace with' box. ... and away you go -- Rod Sheaff On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011 12:48:41 Steven Côté wrote: > > I have just tried that alt-tab and it gives a sort of window in the > > middle as long as I keep my fingers on them. don't quite see how it is > > used but then it is some time since I used MsWindows and then I > > couldn't afford to > > BUY anything later than 98se: > The Alt-Tab key combination is used by pressing the Alt and Tab key > together. This will pull up a visual list of all the current applications on > your desktop. While holding the Alt key down, you can press the Tab key to > select the window you want brought to the forefront. > > > Now I have an added irritation, as if I leave my computer for a period > > it > > not only closes down (good) but it logs me out and I have to re-enter my > > password. When I used MsWindows I didn't even need to log on! Is there > > any way I can switch off this logging out when the computer sleeps? > > What's happening is that your computer is locking itself when the > screensaver kicks in. To change this, in System Settings (accessible from > either the Dash menu or the little gear icon at the top-right of the > screen), select "Screen". Move the "Lock" toggle to off. > > > Oh, also when is Libre Office going to be able, 'by find and replace' > > to > > edit out paragraph spaces and those non-something line breaks that we > > find in e-mails and some web pages when I copy and paste? One could do > > this in MsWord: well there must have been something good about > > microsoft! Or is there some other way of doing it? > > I'm going to say the answer is probably, but I'm not too sure what it is > you're trying to do. I'm guessing you're referring to Microsoft's "Copy text > only" feature to eliminate formatting after pasting text? You can do that > by selecting the text you want to remove the formatting from and pressing > Ctrl-M. Or did you mean something else? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq