On Tuesday 15 May 2007, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from "Kirill S. Palagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote:

> > I appreciate being able to highlight a phrase and then do a search and
> > replace by simply hitting CTL F or whatever, without having to cut and
> > paste as in
> > Word.  However, I need to quickly go back where I started this operation.

> > Instead the cursor now halts at the last replacement instance.  How do
> > you quickly return to your orginal spot.  WordPerfect has a return button,
> > Word does it automatically, then how is it done in Writer?

> There is no easy way to do this yet, but we can ask developers to
> implement this feature by voting for it in
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8288

As there is no(t yet a) way to do this in OO, I use a bodge: 
I type XXXX at the start of my search, and when finished I search on XXXX to 
return where I started.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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