Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 11982
update the help for Search and replace of hard carriage returns
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:12:59 UTC
Is it really not possible to search for paragraph marks (line break inserted normally with RETURN), tabs etc. in Writer? From OOoForum.org: I routinely have to search and replace hard carriage returns with a space or tab to prepare files to be loaded into a database. My problem is that I cannot get OOWriter to search for the hard carriage return. I've tried all the combinations of special characters that I can think of, to no avail. In MSWord the thing to put in the search field was ^p for a hard carriage return, ^t for tab. Would there be a way to do the equivalent in OOWriter?
Ah, it is possible in 643, the help file was not updated. But that illustrates the problem, that to use this you have to search for regular expressions, look them up in the helpo file and then you know that $ is the right answer. In MS Word you just push a button on the search dialog, select "paragraph mark" from a list and then you are ready to search. I am positive that a lot of people will never learn how search for paragraphs in Writer, "regular expressions" must sound awfully technical to normal users.
reassigned to bh@openoffice.org
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To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
I tried to use $ in order to replace paragraph marks (just like user 'sajer') with spaces or whatelse. But it works bad. I attach an example: I asked to replace $ with @ (replace all): the result is bizzarre...isn't it?
Created attachment 78341 [details] image of my search/replace
\n is line break \t is tab