Hi :) Blimey! I can't believe how many different ways of doing it have been suggested and how many answers this thread has received. Brilliant work everyone! I learn tons through this thread and really enjoyed it. Many thanks and regards from Tom :)
On 31 August 2014 18:30, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe it doesn't work in Linux, > but LO's 'Find-Replace' works with multiple documents for me; > [still with 3.4 ] > > The only thing that never worked is the 'Find', for some reason ;-) > I'll click on that one by mistake at times, only to have the > document sit doing nothing ... > then I click on the Find-Replace and can find, or whatever, fine > ;-) > > Was this a bug back-then or what? > > > > From: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text > search in set of documents? > To: [email protected] > > > On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote: > > > On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote: > > > >> Hi :) > >> Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit. > >> > > Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which > > works on multiple files. I used it when I was using LO for my writing > > (I now use Scrivener for books and such). I could change the name of a > > character throughout a book with a simple command. > > > > James > > > > > Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it > was or what version of LO it was used with. > > That would be real handy for book authors and editors. > > Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and > LO for writing his books. He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back > to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more. He has created macros to > help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the > standard QWERTY keyboard. In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he > needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability > to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier. > He seems to be a big "fan" of having multiple documents open at the same > time and editing across those documents. > > SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document > editing. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
