On Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:06, Paul B. wrote:
So, whatever auto format's merits, it's not doing what I need it to. What is needed here is a simple way to search for hard paragraph returns, so the user can do what he needs to. I can't understand why the soft return would be allowed for in searching, but not the far more often used hard. The soft return was even given the symbol, \n, almost universally used for the hard.
Thanks, Paul
Hi Paul,
Search for "$" in the Search and Replace dialog box works. You have clicked the "Regular expressions" check box in the lower left?
You have a point with the inconsistency of \n. The Word way using \n and \p is more intuitive to a regular user (who can't be expected to grapple with regexps). Perhaps I should formulate a feature request for this.
Alan
Yes, I've been using regex searches. Thanks for the reminder about '$', it does find paragraph ends. Without a multiline switch, though, it can't be used to directly do what I'm trying.
I promise you - if you write up a request on this, I'll vote for it. :) BTW, I'm not much of a fan of Word's regex handling. I'm much more used to Perl's.
Paul
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