LibreOffice Stay on Top property

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#1

Hello,
I want to lunch LO from the command line et bring its window to the top to
be the first shown window.

Best regards.

#2

I want to replace two paragrah endings punctuation marks by one, because I
want to replace white lines.
How do I do that?

Carla

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Errr, delete one of the pair?  My guess is that it is not so simple as you make it sound tho.

Is it something to do with paragraph styles?  Note that if a normal enter creates an extra wide gap then try
Shift Enter
to see if that is closer to what you want.  Note that Ctrl Enter creates a new page but shift enter is kinda less than a normal proper enter, so it's not a good idea to use it all the time but it can be handy to help work out what's going on or for one-off oddities to get a better fit on the page. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

[More Options]
[X] Regular Expressions
Search: ^$
Replace with nothing

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Of course make a back-up (just a normal copy) of your file before taking our advice.  I think Andreas might have meant replace
^$^$
with
^$
to reduce all the doubles with a single rather than to remove all paragraph marks.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Am 06.08.2012 11:43, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :slight_smile:
Of course make a back-up (just a normal copy) of your file before taking our advice. I think Andreas might have meant replace
^$^$

Contrary to you, I know very well what I mean and I use test what I suggest.
I bet, you don't even have LibreOffice installed.

#7

No: as usual, you have it wrong; he meant what he wrote. The user wants to remove what she calls "white lines" - actually empty paragraphs. The circumflex character anchors the pattern to the beginning of a paragraph and the dollar sign to the end of a paragraph. So ^$ matches an empty paragraph.

Brian Barker

#8

That's how things works in MS Office. In LibreOffice we actually have regular
expressions (they are quite handicapped in compare to what, for example, perl
has to offer, but it's still better than MS own pseudo-standard).

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
Hmm, is backing up a bad idea?

There are some people here that never make mistakes but it's unlikely that will always be true for all of them. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

I am sorry but I don't know how to type ^$^$! Can you telle me?

And the answer you gave is exactly what I want!
Thank you,

Carla

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#11

Yes, you are right! How do you know how to type the invisible marks in Libre
Office?

Carla

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#12

Hi :slight_smile:
Because he is a genius and has done a lot of exploring.  There is some documentation and it's possible to google-search a lot of things but experience and genius trumps all. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#13

Hi :slight_smile:
I think you have already found the keys you need?  The ^ mark is a
shift 6
on UK keyboards, i think the same on US ones and no idea on others.  On a UK keyboard the $ is on the 4.

If you can't find them they might be in "Special Characters"?  Is that on the insert menu?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#14

carlamarion@xmsnet.nl wrote:

Yes, you are right! How do you know how to type the invisible marks in LibreOffice?

Carla

     Things like this are done with "regular expressions". Help has a list of regular expressions that you can use.

--Dan

#15

Yes thank you, I found the keys, but I tried to eliminate the white lines
using them and the way I did it did not work. I tried to type ^$^$ and
replace it with ^$, but it gave an error.

Carla

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#16

I want to get rid of the white lines which are between the paragraphs in a
document. In Windows Office I do it this way: I find and replace paragrah
ends and that works, but I can't find the way to do that in Libre Office.
I tried to do it your way, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

Carla

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#17

http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3999573/replace_para.png
http://www.mediafire.com/?rr03nrkrgj47t9j

#18

First make sure the "regular expressions" box is checked (ticked as you Europeans say). Then try the previously mentioned suggestion by Andreas. If that still doesn't work, try and Use [:cntrl:] as your search string.

#19

I want to get rid of the white lines which are between the paragraphs in a
document. In Windows Office I do it this way: I find and replace paragrah
ends and that works, but I can't find the way to do that in Libre Office.
I tried to do it your way, but it doesn't seem to work for me.

Carla

Hi. Have you confirmed that the white lines are not spacing above or below the paragraph from the paragraph style.
Right click Paragraph>Indents and Spacing.

Steve

#20

Hi :slight_smile:
Is it possible to upload the file to Nabble? If you reply to any of the
messages then just above the bit where you are supposed to type your message
there are buttons. Click on the "More" button and the top option should be
"upload file". It put s a clickable link into the message so you can add
comments before or after it.

Obviously don't upload if it's a confidential file unless you are first able
to remove any confidential information from the file (including personal
telephone numbers, addresses, personal email addresses etc). It's probably
easier to create a new document that has the same problem
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: