Do you mean with Search & Replace or visually with your eyes? On ny system they are always shown and they show up as a - with a gray background. When you say soft hyphen, you mean the Ctrl+Space character, right?
The help suggested that you can turn the "view user defined hyphens" option off or on if you like: Tools -> Options… -> OpenOffice.orgWriter -> Formatting help -> User defined hyphens. I have Swedish version, so some steps may not be named exactly like that. I couldn't find a way to find the soft hyphen with Search & Replace though. 2007/3/5, Kirill S. Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:
Hello everybody. How do I find soft hyphen in the text (so that it can be removed)? Thanks a lot. WBR, K. Palagin.