Dear All, I have a lot of text written in HTML. e.g. It was midnight and an owl hooted. She jumped. "What was that?" "An owl." "Oh, it startled me." "Never heard and owl before?" if I write this text in Composer, the browser displays it as successive lines. If I write the text in OpenOffice writer the browser now displays the text as It was midnight and an owl hooted. She jumped. "What was that?" "An owl." "Oh, it startled me." "Never heard and owl before?" Looking at both versions in Composer source text the top composer created text has a ...br... tag after each line the bottom version created in OpenOffice writer has a ...p... tag after each line. So that explains in part that OpenOffice is treating new lines as new paragraphs. If I look at both versions once more in Openoffice with the non-printing character icon activated , then the composer created version has a manual return at the end of each line whereas the OpenOffice writer version has a paragraph return which is why I'm getting all those unwanted blank lines. Sorry if the question appears stupid, is there a menu entry, be it, format, style or other, in OpenOffice to change the paragraph return to a manual return. I can't find it. Bye and thanks Fred

Your question is not stupid. I've been looking for the answer to this one as well. Try this: Go to the Options tab in Tools > AutoCorrect. Make sure that “Remove blank paragraphs” is checked in the (M) column. Click OK. Go to Format > AutoFormat .> Apply. That should do it. I’m using version 2.4.1 by the way. Philip Philip Congreave