I am new to this program and I want to do what I used to do in MSWord, that is having used CTRL C to copy text from PDF files remove the extra carriage returns at the end of lines and retain only those at the end of paragraphs.
When you paste text from a PDF, you end up with a collection of one-line paragraphs as shown by enabling View>Formatting Marks.
Consequently, Writer can make no distinction between a paragraph mark used to denote a line break and a real paragraph mark. Only you as a human reader can.
“Normalising” text is a somewhat manual procedure assisted by Edit>Find & Replace.
In the F&R dialog, input $ in the Find box (this represents a paragraph break), enter a space in Replace, chack the box for Regular expressions.
Press Find Next until you are on a paragraph break to turn into a line break and press Replace.
Repeat until your text is transformed according to your taste.
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