can't do find/replace in Open Office Mac 3.4.1

[xena_r <xe...@skyviewmail.com>]

 

Hi all, 

I'm tryng to replace carriage returns in a list of email addresses in
Open Office writer text document.. On-line blogs say to use n or p but
when I use these find/replace doesn't find anything. I have checked
'regular expressions' on. 

I've even tried the add-on extension folks suggested. That version
couldn't find them either. 

I even typed the paragraph symbol in using option + 7 in the 'find'
window but it couldn't find them either. 

I have nonprinting characters turned on. 

What am I doing wrong here? I just want to remove multiple carriage
returns in a list of addresses. 

Thanks in advance! 

Elena 

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Re: can't do find/replace in Open Office Mac 3.4.1

[xena_r <xe...@skyviewmail.com>]

 

Two people have offered similar solutions; thanks Keith McKenna and Alan
B. 

The backslash was left out of my email although I had typed it in; so
"p" or "n" did not work for me, just to clarify. 

Solution: 

What did work was searching on ^$ and just the $. What is interesting is
that if I use ^$ it finds paragraph returns between lines (no typing on
the line) but not at the end of the line. 

 If I use just the $ it finds all paragraph returns, end of line of type
and blank lines. 

Thanks so much and also that this solution is buried in the help. 

Elena 

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On 2015-01-02 21:01, Alan B wrote: 

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:01 PM, xena_r <xe...@skyviewmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm tryng to replace carriage returns in a list of email addresses in
> 
> Hi Elena -
> 
> Serendipitous timing. I just had the same problem about two nights ago and
> did the same things you tried. Keith almost has the solution that worked
> for me.
> 
> In find enter only $
> In replace enter what you want to replace them with.
> 
> The answer actually is in the online help in the area about using regular
> expressions. It wasn't until reading through the third or fourth time very
> very slowly and deliberately that I actually caught the instruction for
> using the $.
> 
> Hope this works for you too.
 

Re: can't do find/replace in Open Office Mac 3.4.1

[Alan B <ab...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:01 PM, xena_r <xe...@skyviewmail.com> wrote:

> I'm tryng to replace carriage returns in a list of email addresses in
>

Hi Elena -

Serendipitous timing.  I just had the same problem about two nights ago and
did the same things you tried. Keith almost has the solution that worked
for me.

In find enter only $
In replace enter what you want to replace them with.

The answer actually is in the online help in the area about using regular
expressions. It wasn't until reading through the third or fourth time very
very slowly and deliberately that I actually caught the instruction for
using the $.

Hope this works for you too.