Thanks Howard. Wow that is nerdy! (I try to avoid the term geek per se, as it originated from the startled sound made by audience members in shock at seeing a carnival act bite the head off of live small animals. By definition, Alice Cooper could be called a geek but not, hopefully, your average UNIX / Linux developer!) Still having difficulty figuring it out but will persist. "Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs" I suppose! 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/ On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:00 +1100, Howard Silcock wrote: > 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/ > > > > > > > > >