I need to Find specific breaks and Replace them with spaces

[Donut]

I will never understand why things are so easy in other word processors but so extremely complicated or impossible in Libre Office. I have a document with lists like this:

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta

I only need to do one quick and simple thing, have the program automatically locate the breaks between Bravo and Charlie, and replace all instances of them with spaces, so the result looks like this:

Alpha
Bravo Charlie
Delta

I have spent hours reading the ridiculously convoluted Help pages regarding Searching, Replacing, and Regular Expressions, and experimenting with all types of combinations, but nothing has worked.

[Wanderer]

@Donut

things are so easy in other word processors

Just tell how you’d solve this in “other word processors”, maybe one of us can “translate”. Please share also a sample file. In the convoluted world of it-professionals there is more than one way to achieve your screenshot, and we are obviously not thinking alike…

[elmau]

Is ridiculously easy and all is in help documentation.

[ajlittoz]

This works only if the separator is a line break Shift+Enter because built-in Find & Replace is limited to a single paragraph extent. If the list is made of standard paragraphs (terminated with ordinary Enter), it does not work.

We can’t tell from the screenshot because View>Formatting Marks has not been enabled.

[LeroyG]

@ajlittoz

a line break

Yes. If do you copy from the sample list, they are line breaks (maybe not the intention of @Donut).

[ajlittoz]

This frequently happens when copying from HTML (this site). This why it is important to have access to the original file. You know the saying Traduttore, traditore. You can’t trust HTML rendition.