This post is sort of a continuation of Jonathan Kaye's post concerning the difficulty of searching for page breaks in a spreadsheet file. I'd like to extend that conversation to also include Writer as I encounter the issue more often there.
Dumb question, Harold, (and whoever wishes to respond) or I'm hoping it is anyway ; In OO.o's Tools; Options; and the top section titled "Open Office.org" the rolldown has an "appearance" choice. In "Appearance", there are different sections for different OOo sections, including one for "Spreadsheer". Within that "Spreadsheet" are listed: Page Breaks, Manual Page Breaks, and Automatic Page Breaks. I changed their color settings to something gaudy so I'd spot them easily and I see it in a spreadsheet. I assume just "Page Breaks" = both manual and auto, not sure. However, that is no help in using Search/Find to locate them; it just helps visually to see them on the screen. And besides, my major interest is in Writer much more than spreadsheets. There is no such "page break" section for Writer/text for the page breaks. I tried the method you gave Jonathan in the other thread and it didn't seem to work, but I may have screwed something up; I didn't try for long because it was given for spreadsheets and not in general and my time is short. It would seem there HAS to be some way to Find a page break! Maybe it'll take a regular expression, or whatever, but it seems there has to be a way<g>. Is there any way, short of a hex editor, to look inside the file, or even the zip format, and somehow determine where the page break code is located? And if so, would it be searchable? Do you happen to know what the code IS? Yes, I realize a zip reader would have some gotchas that way, but ... covering all the bases since that's the only way I know to do anything with an OOo file. I've found I can Find a page break negatively: e.g. search for \r and it'll stop of every line BUT where the paragraph symbol is for the page break. But that's not very useful for a Search function. I don't think anyway<g>. If not, has this been entered into the issue trackers do you know? Perhaps someone should enter it, if not. I've searched some and not found anything like it, but I don't make submissions anymore because they feel I am too negative in my writing styles which is someting it seems I can't help. I'm a concussion victim; you should talk to me in real time!! lol, sorry, I shouldn't be like that but, that's me. At least I've made it out of the "learning disabled" category. Regards, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
