I have a manuscript of about 55,000 words that is many years old and was originally written in Openoffice, I think, but has since been transferred to Scrivener, Focuswriter and perhaps two other programs. It’s now in LibreOffice and there are large gaps between certain paragraphs that I can’t seem to eliminate permanently. I can get rid of them and save, but when I close the program and open it again, the gaps are back. Is there a fix for this? Thanks.
When you say in LibreOffice, do you mean that you have saved it in the native LibO .odt format? What is different between paragraphs with large gaps and those without. What system are you using, which version of LibO and which language, what paper size. Are you using straight formatting or styles? The more information you give the easier it is to advise. You will find the LibO documentation at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ very useful to give background informatikon
I should have included all of that, but luckily Radish’s fix has worked. Thanks anyway.
You could try opening the file and selecting the paragraph before the gap and the paragraph after the gap (this selecting would include the gap itself). Once that is done use CTRL+M to clear direct formatting.
If that doesn’t work then try selecting the entire document then CTRL+M and see what happens.
If either of those work, save the document, then re-open and format it according to what you want.
Another thing to try is for each paragraph before and after the gap place the text cursor anywhere in the paragraph then right-click and select “Paragraph…” By doing this you see what paragraph formatting has been applied - and change it if you want to.
Radish, I selected all, then CTRL+M and made the necessary changes. I closed the program and when I opened it again, the changes were still there. Thanks for the help, you’re a vegetable and a scholar.