[K12OSN] Open Office
Dan Young
dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us
Fri Sep 22 19:42:33 UTC 2006
Hoover Chan wrote:
> While we're on the subject of learning how to use Open Office, I have to
> admit that the one thing that's preventing me from switching over
> completely is the awkwardness, at least in my hands and in my
> perception, of doing search-and-replace for things like tabs, new lines,
> carriage returns, etc.
>
> In MS Word, I just do a search for "^t", "^p", etc.
>
> Does anybody have a pointer to info on how to do this easily in
> OpenOffice Writer?
Edit -> Find & Replace
More Options
Check "Regular Expressions"
Search for \t
That finds tab characters. Not sure about others.
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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
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