Searching and Replacing

Choose Edit > Find and Replace, and make the appropriate entries; see Figure 18-31.

Figure 18-31. Find and Replace window

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WildCard Search

Select the Regular Expressions option; see the online help for complete details. Use an asterisk for 0 to many occurrences of any character. Use a period for a wildcard character for one character. office. finds both officer and offices .

Similarity Search

Similarity Search lets you do fuzzier searching. If you want to find anything that's kind of like "office", you can look for "office" and find "official", "officious," and if you set it up loosely enough, "off." The window is shown in Figure 18-30.

Figure 18-32. Doing "fuzzy" searching with Similarity Search

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OpenOffice. org 1.0 Resource Kit
OpenOffice.Org 1.0 Resource Kit
ISBN: 0131407457
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 407

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