Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 26719
find&replace page-breaks
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
It would be nice to be able to find&replace page-breaks in Write documents.
reassigned to bh
*** Issue 63606 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
you can search for break with page style, does this match your need? Writer->Menubar->Edit->Find&Replace...->More Options->Attributes...->Options- >Page Style
This problem affects me too, and it is a *serious* problem. I need to be able to find and replace (replace being the important point) page breaks with other text (eg to remove them and replace with some whitespace). Many word processors have permitted this for years (I thought open office did) now it doesn't. Why not? Page breaks are treated anomolously by open office (eg cut/paste does not work) why? They should be treated just like any hidden formatting character (like a paragraph mark). Anyway, replacing on formatting / page style is no use to me as often it is someone else's document who has not thoughtfully used any style change to indicate what they are doing. I have been using OO for ages and recommending it. But this is such a serious problem that I am having to consider buying word so I can do it. Arggggghhhhh!
set to new
another RegEx for you, ama
Not really a RegEx because page-break is not a character, it's a property of the paragraph and cannot easily replaced by "some whitespace".