Nothing, which it did (aka deleted it). On Feb 20, 2016 8:52 AM, "Brian Barker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 06:19 20/02/2016 -0700, John Meyer wrote: > >> I was trying to find a way to find and replace the beginning single tick >> in a column of cells, ... >> > > Replace with what, pray? > > ... and out of frustration and trying to set up step one in a longer >> scheme of steps, I tried this: >> Find >> ^. >> Replace >> & >> >> It seemed to work instantly for some unknown reason. Exactly what did I >> do? >> > > You must have had "Regular expressions" ticked. With that setting, the dot > in the "Search for" box matches any single character and the circumflex > requires the match to occur at the beginning of a paragraph. So yes; this > will match the first character of each paragraph in the range. The > ampersand in the "Replace with" box inserts a copy of the string that was > matched by the search criterion - so here it will simply replace the > matched text with what you had before. This will have no effect, of course > - unless you have chosen to modify the attributes or the format of the > string, in which case this technique can be very useful. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- 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
