On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:02, James Plante wrote: > On Feb 26, 2005, at 23:09, N wrote: > > > OS X, OO 1.1.3 > > > > > > I can't find a way to Find and Replace non-printing characters, like > > paragraph end or line feed. > > > > It's not in Format, or any other window I could find. In fact, if I > > click on Format, the next window is all greyed out. > > > > Is this missing from OO? > > > > Nick Kurek > > > Nick, > You need to enable regular expressions in the "Find and Replace" > dialog. For a line-end, use $ in the search field. For a line feed, use > the Unicode entry in the format \x0012 (or whatever the hex code for > that control is.) For a space, use \x0020. There are special characters > provided, such as "[:space:]?", but read the help file carefully; these > things are difficult to use correctly, but they do work. Check the help > file for "List of regular expressions." (Oh, and before you ask, ^$ > finds only empty paragraphs; $ finds all line ends. > > Jim
Further to Jim's reply. Writer looks within a paragraph, thus one can't do things like search for $$, instead you would use ^$ to find an empty paragraph. This leaves the problem of searching for $$$ which Writer can not do. As Jim has said using the commands for regular expressions can be tricky. To try and get around these problems there is an add-on available from http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ in a document IannzFindReplace.sxw. The document also describes how to install and use the add-on. The add-on works fine in OpenOffice.org but not in StarOffice7 (just found this out today). Thanks, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
