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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:14:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: Macro or its equivalent to replace double spaces with single
 space.
From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
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2012/7/17 Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:47:01 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 u=
sed
>> > 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 =E2=80=9DUseful Macro Infor=
mation
>> For OpenOffice.org By Andrew Pitonyak=E2=80=9D, which is a PDF that you =
can
>> download somewhere:
>>
>> REM  *****  BASIC  *****
>>
>> Sub RemoveRedundantSpaces
>>       Dim oReplace as object
>>       oReplace =3D ThisComponent.createReplaceDescriptor()
>>
>>       With oReplace
>>               .SearchString =3D "  "
>>               .ReplaceString =3D " "
>>       End With
>>
>>       While ThisComponent.ReplaceAll(oReplace)>0
>>       Wend
>> End Sub
>>
>>
>> This macro also takes care of tripple spaces and=E2=80=A6 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=E2=80=A6
>>
>> Much better than using the crappy macro recorder anyway. And shorter=E2=
=80=A6
>>
>> If you write the documents yourself, there is a simple way to prevent
>> double spaces in the first place, something like:
>> Tools =E2=86=92 Options for auto correction=E2=80=A6 =E2=86=92 Click the=
 Options tab =E2=86=92 =E2=98=92
>> 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
>> =E3=82=B8=E3=83=A7=E3=83=8B=E3=83=BC=E3=83=BB=E3=83=AD=E3=83=BC=E3=82=BC=
=E3=83=B3=E3=83=90=E3=83=BC=E3=82=B0
>>
>
> Or why not use the Language Tool extension, which will flag double spaces=
 as you type with a blue wiggly underline?

One reason why not, would probably be if you want as few extensions as
possible. If you don't need the other features of the extension, that
is=E2=80=A6


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
=E3=82=B8=E3=83=A7=E3=83=8B=E3=83=BC=E3=83=BB=E3=83=AD=E3=83=BC=E3=82=BC=E3=
=83=B3=E3=83=90=E3=83=BC=E3=82=B0

>
> --
> Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>
>
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