Chris -
What do you mean by using the 'interpreted colon (:) method' for your
pause. I am not familiar with that method or syntax, and as far as I
know LO Writer is not familiar with it.
- Robert
On 2026-07-10 16:22, Robert Funnell wrote:
Chris -
When you search for " :-" sans quotes, is that a hyphen in the search
or a long dash?
If you highlight the text you want to search for and then do Edit >
Find and Replace, the highlighted text should appear in the Find
field, and should be found.
The Google suggestion doesn't make sense to me, and regular
expressions shouldn't be involved for this.
- Robert
On 2026-07-10 15:23, Chris J. wrote:
Hi,
When interrupting speech in a story, think dramatic pause, it seems
you are NOT supposed to leave a space between the previous word and a
dash, en, em, or long. I used the interpreted colon (:) method for my
pause and did leave a space. Now I have to correct all that. I was
hoping there was a way to use find & replace.
Google told me to try turning off auto replace in Tools -> Auto
correct -> options. Tried that. Doesn't seem to have worked. I still
see the long dash in the text and find says can't find search key
when I give it " :-" sans quotes. Tried turning on Regular
expressions and still no search key found.
Is there any way to automate fixing this or do I have to slog
through to whole story by hand? Thanks.
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