Reply inline below: > On Feb 3, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Nicholas Barnett <nickbarn...@onetel.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just bought a new computer (after 11 years with a mac mini). It's another > mac, the air book or is it a book air, anyway, I'm trying to make do without > Microsoftware, WORD and EXCEL, and I've gone and downloaded Apache's offering. > > I've got the __OpenOffice.org Writer for Microsoft Word users:__ to help me > on my way, but I'm disappointed to find no mention of ^ in it. > > WORD uses ^ to code unprintable marks like ^l, linefeed, ^t tab, ^p paragraph > and so on. These are used only in Find and Replace… with regular expressions selected in the Find and Replace dialogue. The ones you mentioned are ^l = \n; ^t = \t; and ^p = $. The beginning of a line is ^; the end of a paragraph is $. That \n is a newline character, and searching for $ won’t find it. Find empty paragraphs with ^$. > > Why not add a table with all the ^ codes and what to do in Writer to get the > same effect? There must be a way to change a ^l to a ^p or vice versa, or > change all ^ps to ^p^ps. There already is one. You’ll find it by searching Google for “Regular Expressions in OpenOffice.” You’ll want to hunt that down, because OOo has a few differences. > > I don't know who I'm writing to, but I did do (what in the 1970s was called) > Tech Lit or Tech Doc for a while, as my job, and I quite enjoyed it, but I > did get paid. I am quite surprised that Apache Openstuff is free. (I think > Office is wildly overpriced, by the same token, and that it says something > rather discouraging about people, and "the market" that the keep going back > in droves to microsoft, rather than going to Apache or a number of other > offerings. Perhaps if you charged $25 for each component, you'd have even > more people taking it! Not that I really know what I'm talking about . . . > I'm just grateful you're there, and can either help with my ^ codes or at > least tell me who I ought to be asking, if not you. > > Yours sincerely > Nicholas Barnett > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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