Dear NoOp, Perhaps you don't realize that I was responding to the most recent post, which often does not include the entire thread. I certainly have no desire to destroy your mental health, my humblest apologies. If you check your last post directed to me, you will see that your response, while carrying the same subject, did not include the entire thread. Personally, I believe your response should have carried a new subject, not "Re: Writer: Highlight row," since it provided no input or solution to the problem at hand. HTH
Suzanne L. Perry --- On Mon, 4/6/09, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: From: NoOp <[email protected]> Subject: [users] Re: Writer: Highlight row To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 6:09 PM 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]
