Initial clean-up of converted or downloaded pdf, epub and txt documents using LO Writer Find and Replace
Scenario: Your downloaded .txt or converted .pdf file has a paragraph break after each line, but you want a paragraph break only at the actual or "real" end of the paragraph. Here's how you take care of that in three easy steps in LibreOffice Writer. Perennial Reminder: Depending on the length of the document, some Find and Replace tasks can take a long while. Take a break and let your F&R do its thing, sometimes as long as five or ten minutes. Be patient. Go to your browser and post something on Facebook or Twitter. Go to the kitchen and make a sandwich. Most Replacements are pretty quick. First , you should replace the actual or "real" end of each paragraph with a placeholder; the reason will become obvious later in these instructions. So here, we are replacing each instance of the "real" paragraph end (highlighted) with ".9999". Later, we will replace all instances of 9999. Below is the find and replace instruction: ( note that the...