On Wednesday 03 Nov 2010 06:11:02 Peter Rodwell wrote: > Hi Cor: > >> 2. Search and replace. I work with large documents, often 400+ pages. > > [snip] > > > OK, that is easy to handle with a trick as user, but possibly also an > > relative easy fix (1)? > > As I said, when you have to do this constantly, dozens of times a day, it > does become a real issue. > > I would have thought it quite simple to save the current position, do the > search and replace then return to the previously-saved position. After > all, if MS can do it then it can't be very difficult. :) > > P.
There is an extension which is pretty much a compulsory install on any OOo instance l use and it does what you ask here. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/altsearch cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
