Lindsay Graham wrote:
After quite a bit of searching through the list archives and Help files and
Tutorials, I have finally found out how to find/replace the special symbols
paragraph mark, soft return and tab. But why was it so hard to find this in
OpenOffice?
So what is the secret, please, Lindsay? I haven't cracked it yet, and
like you have spent frustrating times trying to find out. In the end I
resorted to going laboriously through a document exchanging the special
symbols manually.
Brian B.
I hate to say it, but MS Word has a list of symbols under Special in the
Find/Replace dialog box that is very easy to understand and to use. I've not
yet been able to find anything similar in OO. When I first looked at Regular
Expressions in the OO Help files, it was pretty much gobbledy-gook to me. Even
now that I understand it a bit more, I cannot see where it says how to
find/replace special symbols such as hard space or a hard hyphen.
Is it possible for the Help Files in this area of OO to be made more easily
understandable by new users? Especially, of course, those users of MS Word who
are looking to change to OO -- I presume those are the people that we really
want to attract to OO.
Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia
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