You could try http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer. It looks as if the implementation is, as you might expect, much more geeky in OO than Word. Howard On 24 January 2011 09:42, Write Ideas <writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good morning. > > In Word, one can search for, find and replace items such as a paragraph end > (^p) or a tab ( ^t). > > I wonder if any of you know how to do so, in Oracle Open Office. > > Please advise. > > Thanks in anticipation. > > Cheers, > > > -- > Michael Granat > > Write Ideas > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia > http://www.writeideas.com.au/ > > Advocating the GNU/Linux Ubuntu open source OS. > Ubuntu: "Linux for human beings!" > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ > > > > > > >