[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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