Wouldn't a character style handle this? That would mean using character styles, of course, but that is the first thing I thought of.
Regards, On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]> wrote: > When I had to do something similar, I wrote a macro :-) > > If you do not know much about macros, you probably need to record one, > and I expect that the macro recorder is poor enough that the only real > solution would be to do the first one by hand, copy the correct result > to the clipboard, then record a macro that pastes the value and then > searches for the next occurrence. If you are left with a regular m2 > selection, run the macro again. if not, well, you are finished. > > On 10/02/2013 04:50 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: >> Good evening >> Thisis probably a rather stupid question and has been answered on this >> list (somewhere) a million times ... >> >> (The job is already done - manually - so there is no hurry; I would like >> to know the trick.) >> >> I had a piece of text (txt file), which contained a lot of things like >> "m2" (square meter). >> Working in Writer I tried to do a "find and replace" and turn the "2" >> into superscript. >> But I could not figure out how that works. I ALWAYS got "m2" as >> superscript, even I selected only "2" and then format -> superscript. >> (after I while of trying I gave up and replaced those number manually) >> >> What is the trick required to turn "2" into superscript? >> But ONLY in "m2" and not all "2", since there were lots of other numbers >> too. >> >> Thank you in advance. >> Thomas >> > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > -- > To unsubscribe 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 > -- Kevin B. O'Brien [email protected] http://google.me/+kevinobrien Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. -- To unsubscribe 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
