[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-23 Thread paulwhitehurst
Andrew: The first one seems to work perfect. I didn't try the second one. Thanks for everything. I spent many weeks racking my brain over this. Paul -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Need-simple-find-replace-macro-tp3672651p3683281.html Sent from the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
The first one calls the second one. I did not change the names, but I did change the second one slightly. On 01/23/2012 05:54 PM, paulwhitehurst wrote: Andrew: The first one seems to work perfect. I didn't try the second one. Thanks for everything. I spent many weeks racking my brain over

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
G'day Paul, On 20/01/12 08:10, paulwhitehurst wrote: Doug: My ultimate goal is to migrate from Windows to Linux. Before I do that I need to assure myself that software running under Linux can do what I've been doing in the past with various Windows programs. That 's haw I started many

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/20/2012 10:39 AM, paulwhitehurst wrote: Andrew: Thank you for your work. I used your last two and both of them worked fine. The one that searches for the next } is more useful to me. I would like to figure out how to make it ask to go to the top to continue the search if it gets to the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-20 Thread paulwhitehurst
Andrew: Thank you for your work. I used your last two and both of them worked fine. The one that searches for the next } is more useful to me. I would like to figure out how to make it ask to go to the top to continue the search if it gets to the end of the document, or just stop the macro

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread paulwhitehurst
Tom: Thanks for the response. Don't overthink this. I'm not trying to convert anything from WordPerfect. Rather, I'm trying to just write one for use in Libreoffice (or purloin one someone else has written). The Libreoffice documents will have the } character. I want a macro to find that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2012/1/19 paulwhitehurst whan...@aol.com: Tom: Thanks for the response. Don't overthink this.  I'm not trying to convert anything from WordPerfect. Rather, I'm trying to just write one for use in Libreoffice (or purloin one someone else has written). The Libreoffice documents will have

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.01.2012 17:03, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I found this link http://www.gmccomb.com/vbafaq.html ... but you did not read. http://www.gmccomb.com/vbafaq.html wrote: Will a VBA macro in Microsoft Word run under WordPerfect? No. Although both may use the VBA language, the two programs use

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread paulwhitehurst
Calvin: I've done it like that. I have a problem if there are no more } characters in the document. It deletes the next character whatever it is. I'm looking for something that would notify me if the search finds nothing or would ask to resume the search at the top. In WordPerfect I could

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread paulwhitehurst
Doug: My ultimate goal is to migrate from Windows to Linux. Before I do that I need to assure myself that software running under Linux can do what I've been doing in the past with various Windows programs. I'm very comfortable with WordPerfect having used it for almost 25 years. Nevertheless,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 13:10 -0800, paulwhitehurst wrote: Doug: My ultimate goal is to migrate from Windows to Linux. Before I do that I need to assure myself that software running under Linux can do what I've been doing in the past with various Windows programs. I'm very comfortable with

[libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread NoOp
On 01/19/2012 01:20 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 13:10 -0800, paulwhitehurst wrote: Doug: My ultimate goal is to migrate from Windows to Linux. Before I do that I need to assure myself that software running under Linux can do what I've been doing in the past with various

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need simple find replace macro

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Davies
] Re: Need simple find replace macro To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 19 January, 2012, 21:50 On 01/19/2012 01:20 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 13:10 -0800, paulwhitehurst wrote: Doug: My ultimate goal is to migrate from Windows to Linux.  Before I do that I need