In Writer, how do I search and replace "

[denwo]

In MS Word, you can search for and replace special non-printing characters that represent a format cue rather than text. There's a list of these, most of which start with a "^". For example, to search for all your paragraph marks at the end of each paragraph in your document, you search for ^P.

I had a nice little macro set up to go thru docs that had been imported from, e.g. email, where each line ending was a hard paragraph, and many of them were in the wrong place. The macro searched and replaced ^P with a space, unless it was a double ^P (the real intentional end of a paragraph) in which case it reduced it to a single one.

I need to be able to do this in OpenOffice.org writer, so I don't go mad from having to manually remove the hard return from the end of each line in badly formatted text.

Help, please?
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Moderation probe1: moved to WRITER; corrected typo in subject

[floris_v]

Use the AltSearch extension. First replace two paragraph ends with one followed by a special character, then replace single paragraph end not followed by that character with a space.

And please quit adding those image links, I consider them as spam and will remove them anyway. I would have deleted this entire post but it's a serious question.
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