Description: Coming from using MS Word since version 4 (1990), probably the single greatest feature missing from LibreOffice Writer is the ability to search and replace Paragraph marks, New line marks, Tabs, and so on. For example, if I import (copy/paste) some text into Writer and it has two paragraph breaks between paragraphs, but I only want one, in Word, I would find-replace ^p^p^p with ^p^p. There seems to be no feature to do something like that in Write. If I wanted to change line breaks to paragraph marks in Word, I could find-replace ^l with ^p. I've tried many suggestions, but none of them seem to be able to do it. I even installed 3rd party "Alt. Find & Replace" and it can't do it reliably either. This was a feature I would use nearly every day in Word. Now, I have to use a manual delete/edit process in Writer. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create the situation by making four paragraphs in a Writer document with two "blank lines" between each. 2.Invoke the Edit > Find and Replace 3.Try to find the end of each paragraph and the two blank lines in a search. There seems to be no control information that can be placed into the Find and Replace fields to find them. Actual Results: LibreOffice Find and Replace cannot find the end of a paragraph, whether it is a paragraph with text, or a blank line paragraph. Expected Results: I would like to be able to find the end of a paragraph in Writer search. For example, if there is a paragraph with two blank lines following it in MS Word, I would search ^p^p^p. If I would like to remove one of the blank lines, in MS Word, I would find ^p^p^p and replace with ^p^p. This would remove one of the blank lines. The first ^p finds the end of the paragraph and the subsequent ^p's identify the blank-line paragraphs. The ability to search other text control characters is desired as well. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 24.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 420(Build:2) CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 4:24.2.2~rc2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo1 Calc: threaded However, the behavior is true in Windows OS as well.
Please take a look at https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN#:~:text=Regular%20Expression-,examples,-The%20regular%20expression
As m_a_riosv said, and also: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/02100001.html An example of other users resolving a similar issue: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-remove-blank-lines-between-paragraphs-in-libre-office-writer/32015 If you have doubts on how to use the feature, please feel free to ask on ask.libreoffice.org for more guidance.