[Novalug] OO find and replace .... ARG!!!

Rich Goodwin Rich.Goodwin@PinnaclePointTechnologies.com
Tue Jul 13 17:40:47 EDT 2010


So humor me whilst I vent ... I advocate FLOSS apps as often as
possible.  It really really grates me when there is a common every-day
feature in proprietary tool but not in the FLOSS equivalent.  One
feature I make use of alot in Word is the  "Search and Replace" to strip
carriage returns and tabs with or for other characters.  M$ was really
nice (guess that is the $ part of M$)  in allowing simple pull-down
options for the formatting characters which embeds a carat+[character]
into the search or replace block.  That is NOT available in OO ... or at
least I cannot find it ... ARG!!!  Yes, I could script it using a
scripting language (awk/sed for old school guys like me)  but WHY?!?!!

Ok ..  thanks for reading my venting .... if you have a good integrated
solution for OO Writer, drop me a line.  I think I need to wash my dirty
hands that typed this or brush my teeth for "saying it" ... or
something.

Rich
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