On 13/12/2008 19:07, Twayne wrote:
We are exploring the search (ctrl-f) function in Writer. We see how to
search for many things, but not yet for special characters (em dash,
ellipsis), invisible characters (end of paragraph and the like),
character styles, or for, say, markers of a given type.
I do see the checkbox for "Search for Styles", but this seems only to
make available paragraph styles and nothing else.
I feel certain we are simply missing something. How can we conduct
such searches?
Thank you kindly,
Elchanan
This has been a great thread; that info will be most useful to me!!
In the process, I also discovered that you can add external data to the
Help's Bookmarks features. Just for grins I copied the URL of one of
the references links I liked, click the Bookmark icon, pasted in that
URL, and it shows just fine in the BookMarks field. So it works for
anything, not just Help items. That's new to me, and a great find too!
Twayne
Erm. I'm not sure what you mean here. Yes you can paste any text
(including text that looks like a link - Http://...) into the Bookmarks
pane of the Help system but, later, when you click that text in the
Bookmarks pane it just takes you to the Help page that was visible at
the time you did the pasting. It seems to me - could be wrong of course
- that *you* can somehow get the Help bookmarks to act as a sort of
mini-browser linking to *external* (web, local files,...) URLs. If
that's right, please explain how you managed it.
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