Scott Meyers wrote:
... To save time, I just typed
"Lbegin" everywhere, formatted the first one, copied it to the
clipboard, then sat down to search for "Lbegin" and replace it with the
contents of the clipboard. Except that this does not seem to be a valid
replacement option. ...
You're right. OOo does not handle this kind of situation very well. I've
often wanted an abbreviation that I can type easily, can be replaced by
text with arbitrary formatting, and can be changed after the fact.
Nothing Writer provides will do all that. About the best you can do use
use Autotext, which is not convenient to type (requires F3) and cannot
be changed later.
I would tackle your problem using Find & Replace, in two steps:
1) Find all "Lbegin"
2) Find all "begin" (option: current selection only)
That will select only the appropriate "begin"s and then you can apply
formatting however you want. I recommend a character style, so you can
tweak the formatting without having to do all that F&R over again.
<Joe
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