Replacing indents with tabs

[bod]

Continuing the discussion from Writer: Replace Format, Find text by Indent:

dajare

I’m trying to copy a list of bookmark folders from Brave.
Saved to html
Opened in Writer
I selected all bookmarks using Find and Replace (Ctrl+H) > Paragraph Styles
deleted bookmarks leaving only folders and a lot of gaps

I’m trying to find a quick way to get rid of the gaps
I can’t copy and paste to Calc as the folders and subfolders are only indicated by being indented.

I tried using your suggestion to safe ad *.fodt but can’t seem to figure out how even to save as .fodt let alone then open it.

I could be barking up the wrong tree but your suggestion seems sensible and applicable.
Any tips please?

[EarnestAl]

Are you trying to remove the empty paragraphs? If so the using Find and Replace (Ctrl+H):

1. Select the text (not required if it is the only text, or you want to remove all empty paragraphs)
2. Open Find & Replace
3. In the dialogue:
   In Find enter ^$
   In Replace leave it blank
   under Options
   Tick Current selection only (if required)
   Tick Regular expressions
4. Click Replace All

See List of Regular Expressions

[bod]

Thanks. Beautiful. Much appreciated.

Simple now you say it but I’m still getting used to L.O.
That’s 90% of what I was trying to figure out along the way.

I am also interested in how I can copy and paste the list to a notes app so I’d still like to replace the indents with tabs or spaces.

In Word Shift (or Alt?) + select: hold-click and drag with mouse allows to select what text it is dragged across.

I could try dajare’s AltSearch suggestion but the save-to flat and open to find the indents replaced with plaintext spaces/tabs seems like a fairly clean way of getting a result I can throw to plain text, markdown, Writer or Calc.

[EarnestAl]

Maybe you have a small sample of a dozen lines that you can share? Click the Upload icon (7th from left) to upload. You might need to zip it or add a .odt extension after the .htm extension otherwise you might not be allowed to upload it.

[Edit]
I tried exporting bookmarks from Firefox to HTML. To remove the indent, select everything (Ctrl+A) and click Format > Clear direct formatting (Ctrl+M)

[bod]

Example: Bookmarks indents test.odt (13.4 KB)

[bod]

Maybe there’s another way to get from HTML to .odt in the first place which wouldn’t be rendered as indent levels - or I could try a find and replace on the html code but this is an experiment which seems simple but is evading a straightforward method.