Removing indents from existing document

Bonny Kate · Newbie Joined: 11 Jan 2010 Posts: 2

Hi. I'm formatting a document to ebook specifications. I need to remove all the paragraph indents. Is there a way to do this besides manually? I would really appreciate a short-cut to this since the book is 200 pages and full of dialog.

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Bonny Kate · Newbie Joined: 11 Jan 2010 Posts: 2

Thank you. The \t didn't work but the style did.
Very much appreciated and saved me hours of work.

jrkrideau

alanvogel · Newbie Joined: 24 May 2012 Posts: 3

"If it is formatted using a Style then you should be able to just change the Style indent." What change exactly needs to be made in the Style in order to remove all the indents from an existing document?

keskkin · Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 11:53 am Post subject:

go to the style and on the indent box replace its number by 0
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alanvogel · Newbie Joined: 24 May 2012 Posts: 3

Thanks for the response. I expressed myself poorly. What I want to do is to remove all the paragraph divisions in the document, so that it becomes a single paragraph. I know how to do this in Word, but have not figured out how to do it in OpenOffice.

floris_v · Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 2:15 pm Post subject:

You can do that only if the total number of characters in your file is smaller than 64 K, because a paragraph can't be longer than that in Writer.
Get the AltSearch extension, that offers the functionality to remove paragraph breaks.
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alanvogel · Newbie Joined: 24 May 2012 Posts: 3

Thanks very much. I didn't know about the extension, it works very well.

da_lurker · Newbie Joined: 26 Aug 2012 Posts: 1

I needed the \t thingamajig.. thank you.. Removed 183 tabs in no time.