OOo Off the Wall: Find and Replace (Linux Journal)
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."
Posted Jan 6, 2006 0:55 UTC (Fri)
by tylers (guest, #32168)
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Posted Jan 6, 2006 3:32 UTC (Fri)
by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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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.
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.OOo Off the Wall: Find and Replace (Linux Journal)
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.MS-Word does do some regex-like searching