[Novalug] OO find and replace .... ARG!!!

[Jason van Gumster]

Rich Goodwin <Rich.Goodwin at PinnaclePointTechnologies.com> wrote:

> So humor me whilst I vent ... I advocate FLOSS apps as often as
> possible.  It really really grates me when there is a common every-day
> feature in proprietary tool but not in the FLOSS equivalent.  One
> feature I make use of alot in Word is the  "Search and Replace" to strip
> carriage returns and tabs with or for other characters.  M$ was really
> nice (guess that is the $ part of M$)  in allowing simple pull-down
> options for the formatting characters which embeds a carat+[character]
> into the search or replace block.  That is NOT available in OO ... or at
> least I cannot find it ... ARG!!!  Yes, I could script it using a
> scripting language (awk/sed for old school guys like me)  but WHY?!?!!

I'm not sure what version of OO.org you're using, but at least in 3.2.1 (the
version I'm running), the Find & Replace dialog (Edit > Find & Replace) has a
More Options button at the bottom. Click that and you should see a checkbox that
will allow the Find & Replace tool to use regular expressions. That's probably
the easiest way to get OO.org to search for special characters like tabs and
carriage returns.

Alternatively, you could perhaps hunt for your specific character in OO.org's
character map (Insert > Special Character)... but that's probably more trouble
than it's worth.

Hope that helps!

  Jason van Gumster
  Hand Turkey Studios
  www.handturkeystudios.com