2009/9/26 James R. Liebert <[email protected]> > See > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=22725 > for identification of deficiency. > > I hope someone more clever will show me how to enter a non-breaking > space in the Find or Replace fields in respect to Writer, so I may find > or replace. Yes, I know how to enter it into document text and how to > copy and paste. I was hoping for a more elegant solution, as ancient as > in Word 97. > > I have made a cursory and futile investigation in OO for way to insert > something analogous to "^t" in Find field, which is the Tab character in > Word 97. > > There are lots of such code character commands waiting to be discovered. > > James Liebert > Akron, Ohio > > In the Find & Replace dialogue
- click More Options - check Regular expressions - in the Find box enter "\x00A0" without the quotes - optionally check "Current selection only" and/or "Backwards" You can now find, find all, replace, ... to your heart's content. The "\x00A0" means hexadecimal A0 which is decimal 160 which is the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) code for a non-breaking space. You could write a macro ... Or you could use the Insert>Special Character menu where it's the 5th character after lower-case z in the Latin-1 table. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
