On Mar 5, 2005, at 6:32 AM, CPH wrote:
On Sunday 27 February 2005 05:09, + N wrote:[ MODERATED ] *********************** 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?
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that:
Many thanks for responding. This is much more useful than the cryptic mention of "regular expressions" in the one response that I saw on the website. However, that did give me the clue that got me to the page of regular expressions in help.
In fact, I registered as "slaw" but didn't think to inquire under that name.
How do you that?
BTW, how does NeoOffice relate to OpenOffice? I saw it mentioned in an email.
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 22:02, Ian Laurenson wrote:On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:02, James Plante wrote:On Feb 26, 2005, at 23:09, N wrote:
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).
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-- CPH : openoffice.org contributor
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