New-line search & replace in OpenOffice.org Writer -- the lazy way

Posted by scrubs on Apr 15, 2010 6:10 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Daniel Escasa
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I’ve been editing the Philippine Star Trek fans’ section of the New Worlds Alliance site for a few months now, and the contributors have been submitting their articles embedded in the email message. I actually prefer that to an attached file, because I can read the article right away, without having to open another application. When I’m ready to edit, I ask GMail to create a Google document out of it. Trouble is, the resulting file has hard new-line characters after every line, and a double new-line between paragraphs. I could cursor to the end of each line, delete it, and type in a space, but my inner sloth told me there had to be a better way. Read the full tutorial at Freesoftware Magazine.

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