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Can anybody tell me how, in FrameMaker, to easily find empty paragraphs?
Subject:Can anybody tell me how, in FrameMaker, to easily find empty paragraphs? From:"Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:21:12 -0800
I'm porting material from MS Word to FrameMaker 7, and the perpetr...
er, original authors used empty paras for white space. I'd like to find
and delete them expeditiously.
Is there a handy short way to do a Find for empties?
Seems like a search for \P\p (begin para, end para) should do it, but
seems not to.
Tried copying an empty to the clipboard and doing a find for "Text &
Character Formats on Clipboard" and got nothing.
--TIA,
Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
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