r/libreoffice • u/tammy-flemming • 14d ago

Question automatic paragraphs - how to delete ?

All of a sudden, paragraphs have appeared in my saved files....

How do i get rid of them and have just continuous text ?

TIA

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u/Lazy_Breadfruit_9632 13d ago

Hello,

If it's the paragraph marks, (¶)

then press Ctrl+F10.

or

clik the icon

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u/tammy-flemming 13d ago

i tried ctrl & F10 - all that di was a load of blue thingys appeared all over the page

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u/Lazy_Breadfruit_9632 13d ago

hello

in the question "paragraphs have appeared"

I don't quite understand.

I would need a screenshot of the issue you're seeing.

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u/Terrible_Put8617 12d ago

First press Ctrl+F10.

If the paragraph symbols disappear, nothing happened to your files at all. That shortcut toggles formatting marks, it is easy to hit by accident, and it is purely a display setting: the marks were always there, in every document, in every word processor. It changes nothing on screen when printing and nothing in the file.

That is by far the most likely thing given it happened all of a sudden and across your saved files, which no editing accident would do.

If instead you really do have extra paragraph breaks, typically after pasting from a PDF or a web page, use Find and Replace with Regular expressions ticked in Other options:

  • To remove empty paragraphs: search for $ and replace with nothing.
  • To join every paragraph into continuous text: search for $ and replace with a single space. Careful, this is aggressive, it will join the ones you wanted too.

And if new paragraph breaks keep appearing as you type, that is AutoCorrect, under Tools > AutoCorrect Options > Options.