writer-how to delete a carriage return in a cell of a table

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#1

on my PC=Dell latitude E6510, RAM=8Gb, GPU=GT218 NVS 3100M, CPU=i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, OS=opensuse 13.2 KDE= 4.14.9
with libreoffice Version: 5.0.3.1 Build ID: 00m0(Build:1) Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8)
I have a table with 2 columns and about 10 rows and I cannot delete carriage returns (the non printable character lsimilar to q ) in the cells, so the cells result with two lines.
how can I delete this character to have a single line row??
manythanks, :slight_smile: ciao :slight_smile: pier

#2

Try searching for $ and replacing with nothing (or possibly a blank space) with "Regular expressions" ticked.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#3

yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:

on my PC=Dell latitude E6510, RAM=8Gb, GPU=GT218 NVS 3100M, CPU=i7 Q 720
@ 1.60GHz, OS=opensuse 13.2 KDE= 4.14.9
with libreoffice Version: 5.0.3.1 Build ID: 00m0(Build:1) Locale: en-US
(en_US.UTF-8)
I have a table with 2 columns and about 10 rows and I cannot delete
carriage returns (the non printable character lsimilar to q ) in the
cells, so the cells result with two lines.
how can I delete this character to have a single line row??

Are there actually two lines? i.e. can you place the cursor on the second line and start typing? It may have changed in version 5.0, but in 4.4 I see the paragraph break character at the end of every line in a table cell, including the last. So even with only one line in the cell, there is a paragraph break character.

If you can't actually enter text on the line following the break, you probably have "spacing below paragraph" set on the Table Contents style (or whichever style you're using) - on the Indents & Spacing tab of the paragraph style settings.

Mark.

#4

tyr using the 'backspace', and not the 'delete' button....

#5

Hi:

  That kind of characters is not for delete it is used by the system LO
to mark Enter function (As I know). You can hide with:

Menu-View-Not Print Character (uncheck)

  To delete extra row you have to delete blank space...that's all

Regards,

Jorge Rodríguez

#6

manythanks Brian and all the others, it helped me to know why I wasn't able to delete a carriage return/paragraph mark, it was becouse the two paragraph marks were in two different cells with the separation border hidden, so the two cells appeared like as they were a single cell with two paragraphs, nothing highlight/stand out the presence of a hidden border that split the two cells, even if you set to on the "show non printable character".
I don't know if it is a bug but it is a very misleading behaviour, in the past I remember a subtle dotted border to identify a cell and I think it would be better to reintroduce it, also only in "show non printable characters" set on.
thanks again :slight_smile: ciao :slight_smile: pier

#7

manythanks Brian, it helped me to know why I wasn't able to delete a carriage return/paragraph mark, it was becouse the two paragraph marks were in two different cells with the separation border hidden, so the two cells appeared like as they were a single cell with two paragraphs, nothing highlight/stand out the presence of a hidden border that split the two cells, even if you set to on the "show non printable character".
I don't know if it is a bug but it is a very misleading behaviour, in the past I remember a subtle dotted border to identify a cell and I think it would be better to reintroduce it, also only in "show non printable characters" set on.
thanks again :slight_smile: ciao :slight_smile: pier

#8

Hi, when I only have a few to do, I place the cursor at the beginning of the second line and backspace (to join 2 words) then hit the space bar.
Steve