At 12:45 30/04/2009 -0500, Clifton Liles wrote:
I am trying to do a 'find and replace' in OO writer, 3.0.0 OOO300m9 Intel XP. What I want is to replace '(19' with 'tab(19'. When I use '\t' it simply inserts the '\' 't' in the text, no tab. I also tried '/t' and 'ctrl-i' nothing works.
As has already been suggested, you need to tick the "Regular expressions" box hidden behind the More Options button in order for \t to be interpreted as you need. But that creates a separate problem: you will find that you can no longer appear to search for "(19". That is because parentheses are used in regular expressions to define a reference. Since you do not want this, you will have to "escape" the open parenthesis character by preceding it by a backslash: then it will be interpreted as just the character it is.
Search for \(19 and replace with: \t(19 or, more simply, \t& . I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
