“” finds both non-breaking spaces and normal spaces but not tabs. Replace multiple spaces with just one space. On reopening the Find & Replace dialog, the Regular Expressions checkbox is always unchecked. To use regular expressions, click the More Options button of the Find & Replace dialog and make sure the Regular expressions checkbox is checked. See Help > help > Index tab > and type in “regular expressions” then move to “Searching” and press Display. “Regular expressions” are significantly different in OOo from MSO’s “Use wildcards”. For example, searching for bold text would not find bold text where the style is bold unless this option is checked. Note that when formats are used, there is an option to include searching within styles. This is the same search concept as in MSO. This can be frustrating, so always turn off all of the attribute settings after each use. The attributes settings remain between uses of the Find & Replace dialog. For example, selecting the attribute “Font weight” will find text that has been made bold where the underlying font is not bold (and vice versa).
Openoffice find and replace series#
This button displays a dialog with a series of checkboxes to find where a particular attribute has been changed from the default for the underlying style. The Attributes button is only available in Writer’s Find & Replace dialog. It is possible to perform, on all the selections, most operations that are possible on a single selection. Before doing the find and replace you can bookmark the selection in Writer, or define a range name for the selection in Calc, so that, by using the Navigator, the same range can be quickly reselected.ĭoing a “find all” selects all the pieces of text that match the criteria.
It is common to do several find and replace operations on the same selection, however OOo does not “remember” the original selection. When searching for formats this option is grayed out because there is no way to search for “manual” page breaks.
Openoffice find and replace manual#
Manual page breaks are handled internally by changing the paragraph format of the first paragraph on the new page. See IannzFindReplace (last updated 20 March 2006), available from. To get around this problem, and some other issues, a macro has been developed. For example, OOo cannot search for two blank paragraphs. There is no way to search for text either side of a paragraph marker. Having performed a search, and having closed the dialog box, the keyboard shortcut to repeat the search is Control+Shift+F. Use Edit > Find & Replace, or Control+F, or click the Find & Replace icon on the Standard toolbar. There is no separate menu entry or key shortcut for replace. Find and replace are combined in OOo, unlike MSO.
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