I am copying sessions from ChatGPT, and the paragraphs are soft - formed by doing a Shift-Enter. When I try to format one of these paragraphs with a Header 1 or Header 2, all of the paragraphs get formatted. I have installed Alt Search, but I cannot find the right setting to find these soft paragraphs and replace them with regular paragraphs. Can someone please help me with this issue? Thanks so much.
So they are not paragraphs. Shift+Enter inserts a manual line break; it’s completely the same as the line breaks automatically inserted when your line comes to margin, but just are a way of telling the program, “I know better where to break the line”. It does not end a paragraph, absolutely the same way as an automatic line break does not.
That is a great extension; but in this case, as usual, it would be nice to start with reading help, which tells, that for the built-in F&R (Find & Replace) function, the same regular expression metacharacter \n, when entered into Find and Replace boxes, does two different things: in Find box, it matches exactly line break character; and in Replace, it inserts a paragraph break.
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Yes, this is just the code I needed to find and replace. Thanks so much for your help.
Just use search and replace with:
search: \n
replace: \n
[x] regular Expression
⇒⇒ replace all
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LibreOffice Search and Replace
Search \n
Replace \n -
AltSearch extension (Alternative Search and Replace)
Search \n
Replace \p
Both [x] regular Expression
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