> 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.
Nope; I did not mean to intimate that you could use it as a mini-browser - sorry if I said anything even remotely like that. I just meant I found it handy to be able to enter, say, a URL for further information on a subject that would appear near the original entry. In other words, if I'd bookmarked, say, Find, I could add a "Find - see www.somewhere.com" as another separate entry as an FYI; not that it would take me anywhere. It could just as easily reference to another search term, a book, whatever, for reference purposes. I miss being able to annotate Help Files & I see this as sort of a workaround to annotating. I'm not used to being able to enter anything into BookMarks that didn't come from the Help File, and this one lets me; IMO it's a decent discovery as I think it can be useful but obviously it's a ymmv thing. Apologies: It's mundane enough I probably shouldn't even have mentioned it. Didn't realize it was common knowledge. But here's how I used it, precisely, for the case I was talking about: The thread said Search for Regular List of Expressions, but when I did that, the actual list was still three clicks away from me in further links; Find; List of Regular Expressions does NOT take me to the chart. So instead of adding that bookmark, I added http://wiki.services.../How_Tos/Regular_Exp..._In Writer from the List of REgular Expressons Table the thread talked about. Now, when I click that, I go directly to the List of Regular Expressions chart/table, bypassing the interim steps, and also have a web address on further information right there and handy. THAT is the URL I put in the Title bar, but Help links it now to the correct page in HELP for me and not the page that LEADS TO the link to the List of Regular Expressions. Am I making any sense at all? IMO it's a way of annotating the Help file. Sorry if I'm making this more confusing than it needs to be. Regards, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
