2013/7/11 Ed DeWan <ejde...@illinois.edu> > The handling of newlines and paragraphs in wildcard find and replace in > Open Office writer is utterly insane! Newlines and paragraphs are distinct > characters. Why not use separate characters for each, such as \n for > newline, and \p for paragraph? With that scheme, you could find and replace > at will, without all the folderol that's now involved, and certain > operations appear to be impossible to do with one command. I like OOW, but > now when dealing with some text files to be converted, I copy the text to > Word, fix it, and then copy it back. That's a heck of a lot easier than > messing with replace in OOW. >
AOO use "regular expressions" with a particular syntax (end of paragraph are marked with $, \t represents a tabstop, etc). You can find a draft for the regular expressions chapter on the user guide here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/Advanced/RegExp Note that the form you filled with your question is used for problems related with our wiki (registration, log-in, etc.). For support using Writer or any other AOO component, try our community forums http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ Regards > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
