Re: [libreoffice-users] Annoying reformatting issue.

On 15/04/2024 02:30, Philip Jackson wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On 13/04/2024 18:10, Chris J. wrote:
> > Ubuntu linux 23.10
> >
> > LibreOffice 7.6.5.2
> >
> >
> > So, question; is there a way to automate the application of the 
> > styles and remove the tabs at the beginning of paragraphs. Normal 
> > find and replaces doesn't cut it. Otherwise I'm forced to go through 
> > several books by hand.
> You can find tabs using the standard Find and Replace (Ctrl+H). In the 
> Find box, enter \t and leave the Replace box  empty.
>
> You will need to check the *Regular Expressions* box in the Find and 
> Replace dialog.
>
> Like all Find and Replace ops, be wary of hitting the 'Replace All' 
> button in case you have used tabs anywhere else in the document other 
> than at the start of a paragraph. \t will locate all the tabs used 
> within the the doc.
>
> If you *only* want to find a tab at the beginning of a paragraph, you 
> can use ^\t in the Find box.  I checked this in LO 7.3.7.2 in Ubuntu 
> 2204 and it works fine.
>
> You can also use Find and Replace to locate one paragraph style and 
> replace it with another. In this case you will have to select the 
> Paragraph Styles box. This operation works fine to change styles but 
> it will not remove any 'ad hoc' manual formatting such as Bold, 
> Italic, tabs which you may have applied in the unwanted paragraph 
> style's text.
Chris, does chapter and heading text have leading tabs. When you talk 
about tabs a the beginning of paragraphs, I assume just the first lines 
of a paragraphs are indented with tabs and the rest of the paragraph 
text just flows without line breaks. Do you have multiple leading tabs 
or is it always a single tab with may be varying tab position. I have 
had occasion to clean a plain text document by removing line breaks from 
single lines to form a paragraph and remove indenting tabs. i.e. replace 
a linebreak followed by 1 or more tabs with a single space when the line 
break is not at the beginning of a line. Hopefully this is not your 
situation.

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