As the original reporter, I accept this being root caused to a documentation issue now fixed by: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43107#c27
I wouldn't have filed this report if it had been documented as such to begin with. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892476 Title: [Upstream] Regular expression "\n" in replace field inputs "\n" instead of paragraph break Status in LibreOffice: Fix Released Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc libreoffice-calc: Installed: 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Candidate: 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Version table: *** 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages 3) What is expected to happen in LibreOffice Calc is when one of the cells contains a line break -> Edit -> Find and Replace... -> in the "Search for" drop down \n -> in the "Replace with" drop down \n -> Regular expression button checked is the line break is replaced with a paragraph break as noted in http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions 4) What happens instead is the line break is replaced with the characters \n ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: libreoffice-calc 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Nov 19 13:02:28 2011 EcryptfsInUse: YesInstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-16 (34 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/892476/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp