2012/7/17 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>:
> 2012/7/17 Srinivasulu Bhattaram <bhattarams@gmail.com>:
>> I am new to Open Office.
>> InWORD 2003 (and also in WORD 2007),
>> I have craeted macros to remove double spaces with single spaces and used
>> them extensively..
>> How to have an equivalent of it in Open Office writer?
>>
>> I do not want to go through   Find    Replace.... kind of thing.
>> seena
>
> What about letting a macro do the search and replace for you?
>
> I just wrote this one, with inspiration from ”Useful Macro Information
> For OpenOffice.org By Andrew Pitonyak”, which is a PDF that you can
> download somewhere:
>
> REM  *****  BASIC  *****
>
> Sub RemoveRedundantSpaces
>         Dim oReplace as object
>         oReplace = ThisComponent.createReplaceDescriptor()
>
>         With oReplace
>                 .SearchString = "  "
>                 .ReplaceString = " "
>         End With
>
>         While ThisComponent.ReplaceAll(oReplace)>0
>         Wend
> End Sub

I made some changes to the macro, which now will tell you how many
spaces were removed:

REM  *****  BASIC  *****

Option Explicit

Sub RemoveRedundantSpaces
	Dim oReplace as object
	oReplace = ThisComponent.createReplaceDescriptor()

	With oReplace
		.SearchString = "  "
		.ReplaceString = " "
	End With

	Dim Count As Integer, TotalCount As Integer
	Do
		Count=ThisComponent.ReplaceAll(oReplace)
		TotalCount=TotalCount+Count
	Loop While Count>0
	
	Select Case TotalCount
	Case 0
		Print "No redundant spaces found."
	Case 1
		Print "1 space was removed."
	Case Else
		Print TotalCount & " spaces were removed."
	End Select
End Sub


>
>
> This macro also takes care of tripple spaces and… well, it just
> removes all spaces until there are only single spaces left. And it is
> fast. Really fast.
> I tested it myself, and it worked in all my test cases. Well, I didn't
> test it THAT thoroughly, but still…
>
> Much better than using the crappy macro recorder anyway. And shorter…
>
> If you write the documents yourself, there is a simple way to prevent
> double spaces in the first place, something like:
> Tools → Options for auto correction… → Click the Options tab → ☒
> Ignore double spaces
>
> You can still make double spaces if you really want to, but it's less
> likely to happen accidently.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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