To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66285 Issue #:|66285 Summary:|Search & Replace should have an MS compatibility mode Component:|Word processor Version:|OOo 2.0.2 Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|All Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|FEATURE Priority:|P3 Subcomponent:|editing Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|mguenter
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 9 08:19:41 -0700 2006 ------- The users are used to the special characters ^p etc they found with MS Office. To make migration easier. There must be a compatibility mode which allows to use the same search and replace pattern. I suggest also to add a new button in the search & replace menu with "Special characters" or the like. By the way: Regular expressions are not understood by many people who are IT specialist. Therefore for big user communities the term and the complexity of it should be hidden. How did I came across this. I like to use word processors for complex search and replace tasks. I have a document that I prepare to be exported as CSV. The document came as MS Word. The lines looked a bit like that: Stimme, Laut, Wort 6 vọx, vọcis f. () feierlich versprechen, geloben 34. vovẹre (voveọ, vọvị, vọtum) Gelübde, Wunsch 38 vọtum () ihr 4; euch 19 vọs () What I wanted was to replace "^p()" with " ()" (in Word talk) My desired result: Stimme, Laut, Wort 6 vọx, vọcis f. () feierlich versprechen, geloben 34. vovẹre (voveọ, vọvị, vọtum) Gelübde, Wunsch 38 vọtum () ihr 4; euch 19 vọs () I didn't manage to do the work in OOo neither with regular expressions "$\(\)" nor otherwise. For my problem I will swap to Word to do it or I will to it in vi. PS: Perhaps this is a core feature. Sorry, if I didn't place it right. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
