10-04-2009, 01:30 PM | #1 |
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How To Correctly Format In Open Office ?
So I've been using open office for a while now to convert and take out boarders using a template I downloaded from this forum (which is great)
But I've been getting a lot of gaps in my books as pictured with some gray blocks when I paste them into open office. So I guess there is an option to reformat the book and remove the gaps ? Anybody point me in the right direction please |
10-04-2009, 04:06 PM | #2 |
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Looks like they follow a fixed break/space patterning, so you can probably eliminate the vast majority simply with the replace command.
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I've tried that, But how do I tell what to replace in the replace section as they are blank spaces ?
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Some look like paragraph markers; others look like tabs. In your position, I'd experiment and see which find+replace commands work best.
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Again I cannot use auto corrects replace feature because I can't tell it what to replace, If I drag the mouse over the gray and use the copy option it just shows as blank space when pasting into the replace box
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Ok thanks for that Alex but I still get nothing when I paste into auto corrects
Replace box ? |
10-05-2009, 09:17 AM | #8 |
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Go to Find+replace on the edit menu. Click on "more options." Then experiment a bit.
Try clicking on "format" and edit the indents and spacing. Or click on "attributes" and search for "indent" or "page style". |
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Ah, Open Office and the paragraph. OO has a quirk, inherited from UNIX. The newline character and the paragraph character are different. OO doesn't have a very flexible way of working with them in find and replace. MS Word is much better at this. I suggest trying something like doing a wild card find and replace on ^[space][space]$, where [space] is a spacebar character, with a blank line as the replacement. Then try Autocorrect or Autoformat again. YMMV.
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Thanks Patricia & Jack, Got something a lot better than I had
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Well I've done two ebooks fiddling with the ndents\spacing\format options but the last two I tired to do just won't play ball, Anyone want to explain how the "^[space][space]$" command is suppose to work as I can't seem to get it to do anything in OO using regular expressions, Is it suppose to remove spaces or something
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^ is the start of line & $ is the end of line, so '^[sp][sp]$' is just looking for lines consisting of two spaces only.
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