To look for such "special" chars you must use "regular expressions". There is a checkbox in F&R dialog to indicate you want to use reaular expressions.I thought that I could find how to do this but could not. Is there documentation on what to use for non-printing characters?
Click on help on that dialog, there is an entry for Regular expressions and a "Regular expressions list" that explains teh syntax you may use to specify a search.
There is NO search for paragraph marks (like in MS-Word, ^p). Actually, OOo seraches are confined within single paragraphs. You may specify to search at the start of a paragraph (^something) or at the end (something$). ^$ finds empty linesThere were some comments on finding the end of a para but I did not note. Into finished now the question:
I have been importing some *.doc files. Then there are a lot of different formating styles that appear and need changing. Underlining, tabs, abbreviations. Best solutions?
For underlining I highlight the whole selection, click on underline once (to underline everything) then twice (to remove all underlining).
For tabs I have to find then DELETE each one, then replace with a space. Is there a way to do with such FIND and REPLACE? I could not find.
You are lucky, this is an easy search: look for "\t"
Next, is the removal of periods after CAPS for abbreviations. Such as F. R. I need to change to F R (say for Find & Replace) or T. M. C. to T M C.
I have no easy cue here.
Have a look at Tools>Autocorrection (or Automatic correction, I'm using OOo in spanish and menu names are not the same). There you can definen a list of abbreviations to translate, also a number of optiosn to , for instance, eliminating paragraphs in DOS-text (with end paragraphs on each line end), manage capitals an so on. I am not an expert on that, but if I had to convert a lot of files I will study that carefully.
- Enrique -
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