Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[Keith Bates]

Thanks, Brian. That is very good.


On 5/3/20 8:52 pm, Brian Barker wrote:

At 18:28 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:
I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write 
some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.


I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case 
first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph 
in the document and convert it to upper case.


I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which 
is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first 
letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box 
it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" 
and "regular expressions" boxes ticked.


Is there a way to do this other than going through the document and 
replacing manually?


At 20:00 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:

To answer my own question:
1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All".
2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog.
3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper 
case


Does this also work?
o Find: ^. (caret-dot)
o Replace: & (ampersand)
o Tick "Regular expressions". (No need for "Match case".)
o With the cursor in the Replace box, click Format... .
o On the Font Effects tab, for Effects select Capitals.
o Replace All.
o Voilà!

Brian Barker


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[Keith Bates]

Thanks, John. You are right. I always have to complicate things!


On 6/3/20 4:33 am, John Kaufmann wrote:

On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote:
I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write 
some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.


I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case 
first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph 
in the document and convert it to upper case.


I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which 
is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first 
letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box 
it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" 
and "regular expressions" boxes ticked.


Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad 
replacing manually?



On 2020-03-05 04:00, Keith Bates wrote:

To answer my own question:

1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All".
2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog.
3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper 
case


Keith, I like your solution (and Brian's, which is as elegant as the 
way he presented it), but am confused about step 3: do you /really/ 
right-click (for context menu)? From step 1, you already have the 
first letter of each paragraph in focus; don't you just go from there 
to the main menu ? [The order of steps 2 and 3 
has no effect - or, to put it another way, step 2 is not essential to 
your solution.]


John 



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[John Kaufmann]

On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote:

I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some 
documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.

I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first 
letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in the document 
and convert it to upper case.

I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is easy. ^[:lower:] finds every 
lower case letter which is the first letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the 
replace box it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and 
"regular expressions" boxes ticked.

Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad replacing 
manually?


On 2020-03-05 04:00, Keith Bates wrote:

To answer my own question:

1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All".
2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog.
3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case


Keith, I like your solution (and Brian's, which is as elegant as the way he presented 
it), but am confused about step 3: do you /really/ right-click (for context menu)? 
From step 1, you already have the first letter of each paragraph in focus; don't you 
just go from there to the main menu ? [The order of 
steps 2 and 3 has no effect - or, to put it another way, step 2 is not essential to 
your solution.]

John

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[Philip Jackson]

On 05/03/2020 10:52, Brian Barker wrote:

At 18:28 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:

I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some 
documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.

I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first 
letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in the document 
and convert it to upper case.


Does this also work?
o Find: ^. (caret-dot)
o Replace: & (ampersand)
o Tick "Regular expressions". (No need for "Match case".)
o With the cursor in the Replace box, click Format... .
o On the Font Effects tab, for Effects select Capitals.
o Replace All.
o Voilà!

Brian Barker


Elegant solution, Brian.

Philip



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[Brian Barker]

At 18:28 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:
I have been using the voice typing feature in 
Google Chrome to write some documents, then 
download them in .odt format for editing.


I find that it consistently starts a new 
paragraph with a lower case first letter. So I 
need to find the first letter of every paragraph 
in the document and convert it to upper case.


I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular 
Expressions, which is easy. ^[:lower:] finds 
every lower case letter which is the first 
letter of a paragraph. But when I enter 
[:upper:] in the replace box it simply pastes 
the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match 
case" and "regular expressions" boxes ticked.


Is there a way to do this other than going 
through the document and replacing manually?


At 20:00 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:

To answer my own question:
1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All".
2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog.
3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case


Does this also work?
o Find: ^. (caret-dot)
o Replace: & (ampersand)
o Tick "Regular expressions". (No need for "Match case".)
o With the cursor in the Replace box, click Format... .
o On the Font Effects tab, for Effects select Capitals.
o Replace All.
o Voilà!

Brian Barker 



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[Keith Bates]

To answer my own question:

1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All".

2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog.

3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case


On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote:
I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write 
some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.


I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case 
first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in 
the document and convert it to upper case.


I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is 
easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first 
letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box 
it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and 
"regular expressions" boxes ticked.


Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad 
replacing manually?


Thank you

Keith




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[libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

[Keith Bates]

I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write 
some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.


I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case 
first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in 
the document and convert it to upper case.


I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is 
easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first letter 
of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box it simply 
pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and "regular 
expressions" boxes ticked.


Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad 
replacing manually?


Thank you

Keith

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