Hi :) At the bottom fo the normal find&replace dialogue box is a "More Options" or "Advanced Options" or "Further" or soemthing like that which expands teh dialogue-box to include more options. I guess you have tried that already as i don't think it helps with the things you mention.
I sometimes higlight an example of what i am looking for and do Ctrl C to copy to the clipboard and then paste that into the Find box. Sometimes it just puts whatever was selected straight into the Find box without me even havign to paste it but i'm not sure if LibreOffice does that. It might do. I think McMurchy's plan to use the Extension to expand the capabilities of the find&replace really is the best plan because my little work-arounds are probably not enough for what you need http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer It's also worth havinga quick look around at other Extensions because it really helps to tailor your version of Libreoffice for your requirements. We all have different requirements. Extensions/Add-ons/Plugins help us all win without all of us having to compromise. Good luck and regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 22/3/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4 paragraph marks, etc. > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 22 March, 2013, 9:20 > 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
