https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161074
Bug ID: 161074
Summary: Ability to search and replace Paragraph, Tab, and
other text control characters
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Coming from using MS Word since version 4 (1990), probably the single greatest
feature missing from LibreOffice Writer is the ability to search and replace
Paragraph marks, New line marks, Tabs, and so on. For example, if I import
(copy/paste) some text into Writer and it has two paragraph breaks between
paragraphs, but I only want one, in Word, I would find-replace ^p^p^p with
^p^p.
There seems to be no feature to do something like that in Write. If I wanted
to change line breaks to paragraph marks in Word, I could find-replace ^l with
^p.
I've tried many suggestions, but none of them seem to be able to do it. I even
installed 3rd party "Alt. Find & Replace" and it can't do it reliably either.
This was a feature I would use nearly every day in Word. Now, I have to use a
manual delete/edit process in Writer.
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create the situation by making four paragraphs in a Writer document with two
"blank lines" between each.
2.Invoke the Edit > Find and Replace
3.Try to find the end of each paragraph and the two blank lines in a search.
There seems to be no control information that can be placed into the Find and
Replace fields to find them.
Actual Results:
LibreOffice Find and Replace cannot find the end of a paragraph, whether it is
a paragraph with text, or a blank line paragraph.
Expected Results:
I would like to be able to find the end of a paragraph in Writer search. For
example, if there is a paragraph with two blank lines following it in MS Word,
I would search ^p^p^p.
If I would like to remove one of the blank lines, in MS Word, I would find
^p^p^p and replace with ^p^p. This would remove one of the blank lines.
The first ^p finds the end of the paragraph and the subsequent ^p's identify
the blank-line paragraphs.
The ability to search other text control characters is desired as well.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
Version: 24.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 420(Build:2)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:24.2.2~rc2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo1
Calc: threaded
However, the behavior is true in Windows OS as well.
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