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Chapter 2: Working With OpenOffice.org

The Find & Replace dialogue can remain open without interfering with text entry and it

can be moved to any place on the screen. However, when it is closed, it remembers the

previously entered strings so they do not need to be reentered for the next search, but can be

selected from the list box.

One very useful feature is the multi-selection facility Find All. For instance, using Find All,

one could set every occurrence of the word “document” in the text to boldface. Enter the

search term in the Search for field and then click Find All. All occurrences are now

selected. Place the cursor in the Replace field, and click the Bold icon in the text object

bar to boldface all occurrences of the search term.

The dialogue graphic above illustrates that there are several ways of expanding or restricting

searches by combining selections from the Options group box and the buttons. Examples for

each option are described below.

Searching for Whole Words Only

Select the Whole words only option to find whole words that match the searched for word.

For instance, if the word “in” is entered as the search term in the Search for field, all

instances of “in,” or “In,” as stand-alone words in the text will be found. Words like “bin”

or “chin” will not be found if this checkbox is selected. If searching using regular

expressions or for Styles, do not select this option.

Match Case

When this checkbox is selected, the search is case-sensitive to uppercase and lowercase

letters. So if searching for “in,” it will be found, but not the word “In,” Combine a Match

case search with the Whole words only option as needed.

Searching for Text With Wildcards

1. Start Find by selecting Edit > Find & Replace dialogue or use Ctrl+F.

2. Check the More Options > Regular expressions box.

3. Enter the search term with the desired wildcards and click Find.

Regular expressions are entered using text combined with keyboard characters and symbols

that have special meaning in this context:

• The wildcard for any number of a given character is the character itself followed by an

asterisk (*). Note that this is different to the way '*' is used in file names.

Example: Enter “Hawai*” in the Search for field. This means that any number of “i's”,

including none at all, may follow “Hawa”. Thus the words “Hawa”, “Hawai” and

“Hawaii” will be found.

• The wildcard for a single character is the period or dot (.). This is equivalent to the

wildcard '?' in file names.

• Combining the above two rules, the wildcard for several unspecified characters in

succession is '.*' (period and asterisk). This is equivalent to the wildcard '*' in file names.

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