Yes; I do not have a programing background, and this comes up often
enough to have written macros for Word and Wordstar (yep, wordstar) to
do this, and they do not require a knowledge of hexadecimal code, etc.
The instructions in that manual are NOT clear at all. yes, you can turn
regular expressions, then what? do you put
\xXXXX into search and a different \xXXXX into another. It doesn't seem
to work. I might be putting in the wrong codes, I don't know.
The most I've found out is that I can put a \t into the find and it will
find and replace anything with whatever I type in the replace box with,
but I cannot get it to replace \t with another non-printing character.
How would I represent searching for all instances of two carriage
returns and replacing them with one?
Or replacing all tabs with a carriage return.
There is simply not enough information in the manual to do this.
This should not require learning technogobble
This is often a problem with some open source software in that it is
assumed that you have a working knowledge that should not be necessary
for an end user.
hjd
Paul Wright wrote:
Does anyone think that this question comes up often enough that it would be worth putting it into the help file in just this form?
How to search and replace paragraphs and tabs.
I know the experts think that learning regular expressions will increase
everyone's expertise but, in truth, most people just want a 'do this'.
----Paul-----
CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:13, +
TLSabim wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone know how to replace for example a paragraph mark (or Tab
character) with manual line break or vice-versa?
I am knew to OOo and I could not find under Find & Replace an option for
that.
Look at the "Help" button on the Find&Replace dialog. You are looking
for "Regular Expressions".
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