[K12OSN] Open Office

[Hoover Chan]

Thanks for the pointer. This is good for when there are only a handful of 
these but I often massage documents where I need to do a search and 
replace of thousands of tabs and EOL's.

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Hoover Chan                   chan at sacredsf.org
Director of Technology
Schools of the Sacred Heart
2222 Broadway St.
San Francisco, CA 94115


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Ray Garza wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:19:56 -0500
> From: Ray Garza <ray at mission.lib.tx.us>
> To: chan at sacredsf.org,
>     Support list for open source software in schools. <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Open Office
> Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:14:16 -0700
> Resent-From: chan at sacredsf.org
> Resent-To: hchan at albert.sacredsf.org
> 
> On Friday 22 September 2006 14:18, Hoover Chan wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
> I never used a search function to find tab stops, new lines or carriage
> returns in MS Word. If I wanted to find them I would click on the Nonprinting
> Characters button on the toolbar to visually display them. OpenOffice Writer
> has the same feature.
> -- 
> Ray Garza
> Coordinator of Computer Services
> Speer Memorial Library
> (956) 580-8757
> ray at mission.lib.tx.us
>