On 08/17/2011 08:44 PM, tambl...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:30:38 -0500, tambl...@gmail.com wrote: > >>Can someone help me figure out the find and replace for this? >> >>I've imported a CSV into a spreadsheet (migrating a site from >>Wordpress to Joomla). The field for the posts has newline characters, >>which won't be automatically converted to paragraph HTML tags by >>Joomla as they were in Wordpress. >> >>So, basically, I need to put a <p> tag at the beginning of each >>paragraph, and a </p> tag at the end of each paragraph. I thought >>this would be easy, and found the regex info in the help file, but >>every time I try to run it, I'm told that the beginning or end of the >>paragraph isn't found. It's not finding \n, either. I do have the >>"Regular Expressions" and "Current Selection Only" boxes checked. Is >>it looking for Writer paragraphs? Is there something else I should be >>searching for in Calc? >> >>I can always edit each post to add these tags if I have to. There are >>only 500 or so of them, but I'd really like to avoid that. :-) > > I've since found out that the problems with this are due to the > limitations of find/replace in Calc. Does anyone know how to work > around it? Thanks! >
If you can get it into Writer, the Alternative Find & Replace Extension might be a good choice: http://www.volny.cz/macrojtb/AltSearch_cs.html http://www.volny.cz/macrojtb/AltSearchScr_en.html [screenshots] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
