Empty paragraphs can be found using the regular Find & Replace dialog. In the Search For box typeCode: ^$and in the More Options section select Regular Expressions. Clicking Find All will select all of the empty paragraphs and you can set the font size using the formatting tool bar.A better way than blank lines to handle spacing between paragraphs is to modify the paragraph style. You can see the name of the paragraph style near the left end of the formatting tool bar.
You are probably using the Default style. Press F11 to bring up the Styles and Formatting window. Click the leftmost icon near the top to view the paragraph styles.
Right click on the name of the style you are using and select Modify. On the Indents and Spacing tab you can set how much space is left blank below each paragraph. Questions about macros are best asked at the forum.You are using empty paragraphs to provide spaces and, as you have found, they look awful. Show them by View Non Printing Characters.You can use Find and Replace with Regyular Expressions to find the empty paragraphs, and change their font. You can record a macro while doing so - see.The Alternative Find and Replace add-on allows you to do so by choosing items from a menu (Empty paragraphs) and shanging their properties.The best way to reduce the space is as suggested - Format Paragraph Indents and Spacing., and set the gap below a paragraph to be small - I use 2mm for 11 and 12 point text.
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You will then need to delete all the excess empty paragraphs. Click Help for more information. Thank you FJCC, Zizi64, JohnHa for your responses. Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you all.It seems I needed to be a little more specific in my explanation, sorry about this.The text I am adding to my A4 sheets is in the form of songs, so not paragraphs as such.
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Each line has a return at the end of it, so in some ways I think each line will be classified as a paragraph. At least that's the impression I get when i try to utilise the spacing after paragraph instructions you have all supplied where I get a blank line after each line of the song.So from this I think the closest i can get to what I want is to use the Find and Replace command as suggested by FJCC. The text I am adding to my A4 sheets is in the form of songs, so not paragraphs as such. Each line has a return at the end of it, so in some ways I think each line will be classified as a paragraph. At least that's the impression I get when i try to utilise the spacing after paragraph instructions you have all supplied where I get a blank line after each line of the song.You must use a DIFFERENT paragraph style for the empty rows. Now, when you cange the font size or the spacing property of that Paragraph Style, it will change the paragraphs only you applied that paragraph style for.Se my example file. In this file there are non-empty praragraphs with Paragraph style named 'Default', and there are empty lines with style named 'Empty1', and there are lines with 'Empty2'.Now you can adjust the properties of the styles independently.
See in Styles and formatting at Paragraph styles. Once again, thank you for trying to help the hopeless.If I turn on Non-Printing Characters from the View drop down menu, I get a (I think it is called) carriage return at the end of every line, plus one at the start of each blank line. If I do as you have suggested and type ^$ it does highlight the blank lines, but applying the blank line text size also changes the next line.I'm not sure how to show you as you showed me, but I will add a pdf and you can see the result (hopefully).attachment=0blank test.pdf/attachment Attachments (44.7 KiB) Downloaded 51 times.
Parking wrote:I have paragraphs of text which I try to fit on a single page at 14 font size. I would like to be able to run a macro to reduce the blank lines to 8 font size to enable full pages to hold just a little more.Now that you have set View Non printing characters to on, and you can see what is happening, it is very quick to do it manually:1 place the cursor in the empty paragraph and press backspace or delete2 move the cursor to next empty paragraph, and repeat 1 untill all are gone3 place cursor in paragraph where you want a small gap following and go Format Paragraph Indents and Spacing., and set Gap below Paragraph to the required gap.Or use Edit Find and Replace. Type ^$ in Find, leave Replace blank, tick Regular Expressions, click Replace All.Or download the Alternative Find and Replace add-on. Choose Empty paragraph in Find, leave Replace blank.
Click replace all.
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