On 04/05/2009 08:17 AM, S Perry wrote: > Thanks for telling us. It's always satisfying to help. > > As in all computer usage, knowing what to call things is a huge hindrance, > not just for newbies. When I worked in development at IBM, this was a daily > concern. In fact, given the number of computer languages there are and the > number of ethnic languages there are, it's a wonder that any of it works at > all. So, somehow, we've managed to learn to communicate, despite the > challenges. That is why your "Googleing 'repeating list item open office'" > produced no "hits." > > In OpenOffice, as in many other types of software, to find things (words, > formats, etc.) we call that "pattern matching." Therein lies the reason for > my suggesting "regular expressions." If you'll click on HELP, in any of the > OpenOffice applications and search for "regular expressions," as well as > Google for it, you can learn more about that helpful feature than you ever > wanted to know! It's not hard to use, just a little tricky; requiring GREAT > attention to detail, character by character. I suggest you copy and paste > some text from some document and paste it into a new document called > REGEXP_TESTING and commence experimenting with it. Some mastery of its use, > even though mastery is not totally complete, can be helpful to anyone. As > you achieve each "success," take a minute to record it in that same testing > file and identify it with a meaningful phrase, meaningful to YOU. This can > be a tremendous help, especially when we're not looking for > the same patterns every day. It helps to have a record of what we've > learned so that we can refer to it the next time we need it. > > > > Suzanne L. Perry
[snip] Suzanne: can you please look into keeping your replies within the actual thead that you are replying to? All of your posts are individual posts outside of the original thread & makes it: 1) very difficult to maintain a full subject thread, 2) spawns multiple posts that detract from the original subject, drive me crazy ( :-) ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
