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OOo Off the Wall: Find and Replace (Linux Journal)

[Posted January 5, 2006 by cook]

Bruce Byfield explores the OpenOffice.org find and replace capabilities in a Linux Journal article. "In long documents, a strong search-and-replace tool is essential for editing duties. Although many users confine themselves to simple text searches, OpenOffice.org's various searches are a match for any rival's. They also are remarkably consistent throughout Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress, the four main OOo applications."

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Posted Jan 6, 2006 0:55 UTC (Fri) by tylers (guest, #32168) [Link]

I've been forced to work in MS Office products recently and there have been many times I've wished for a real REGEX search and replace. Being limited to asterisks and question marks is not fun.

MS-Word does do some regex-like searching

Posted Jan 6, 2006 3:32 UTC (Fri) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

It's a bit weird, and useful features from "regular" searches can't be mixed with "regular expression" searches but it's better than nothing. Have a bit of a prod around the tabs and checkboxes on their search form.

No doubt they will soon start chasing OOo's tail-lights as much as they can without being obvious, but for now that's it.