Have a look at the "Alternative Dialog for Find & Replace" extension. Here's a link to it -
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/alternative-dialog-find- replace-for-writer On Thursday 21 Mar 2013 20:24:17 Paul Schmidt wrote: > My first look at LibreOffice 4.0 impresses me. Looks like I can do > practically everything I do with Microsoft Office. However, there is one > thing I use Word for quite often, and I cannot replicate it here, although > the manual seems to imply I can. That is using find/replace to make changes > to paragraph marks, new line marks, and tabs to format various types of > documents in order to be able to import them into a FileMaker database. > Feor the paragraph mark I have played around with "$", "^.", and "\n", but > no luck. I use a Mac running Snow Leopard. What am I not understanding? > > =============================================== > Paul Schmidt > Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas > Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM > Mexico, D.F. 04510 > MEXICO > Tels:(52-55) 5622-9565 (Universidad) > Fax: (52-55) 5665-2959 y 5622-9651 (Universidad) > Cel: 55-1129-8949 > E-mail: [email protected] > [email protected] > Sitio: http://paulgro.googlepages.com > =============================================== > "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be > called research, would it?" Albert Einstein > =============================================== -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
