Positive things for Monday

on the 'quit while you're ahead' basis

1. Calvin Klein's 'Obsession': a walk on the wild side.

2. Have almost hit werk target for end of week.

3. Delightful dreams about sailing ships last night, doubtless attributable to Derek Lundy's The Way of a Ship, from which -- despite being only halfway through the book -- I have learnt more about the simple mechanics of sailing ships than I'd retained from all 20 Aubrey / Maturin novels.

Help Wanted re Line breaks in OpenOffice

I am using OpenOffice, and have a large quantity of text that has been pasted from Mozilla Firefox.

The formatting and special characters (reason for using OO not plain text) are fab: however, the line breaks are peculiar. They are not standard paragraph breaks, the sort you get when you hit Enter: those show up with the standard paragraph symbol, ¶. They behave the way that standard line breaks behave in Microsoft Word -- e.g. on a justified para, they yearn for the right margin, often with ridiculous spacing on the last line of a paragraph.

I'd like to replace all these line breaks with standard para breaks but I can't make OpenOffice display them, even by requesting display of non-printing characters, and I can't do a search that finds them, even via copy and paste.

Do I have to take the document home and do it in Word? Or is there a better way?

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does anyone have any idea about the order in which they're rolling this out? Several of my subsidiary accounts have been enabled, but not my original one ...