replace text with text formatted by style

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#1

Readers,

Is it possible to use the 'find' dialogue window to replace text that
a style can be applied to? For example find text 'abc' and replace
with 'abc' whereby a style (emphasised) is applied to the result.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
If you are talking about the pasted text having the same format as the text surrounding where you are placing it then i think that is posted as a bug-report already.  It was a very long time ago tho so it might be worth bumping the thread if you have soemthing useful to add (assuming you can find it!)

Sorry for not being particularly helpful!
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Am 13.10.2011 16:35, e-letter wrote:

Readers,

Is it possible to use the 'find' dialogue window to replace text that
a style can be applied to? For example find text 'abc' and replace
with 'abc' whereby a style (emphasised) is applied to the result.

Use the "Find All" button to select all occurrences.
Double-click the character style.

#4

Use the "Find All" button to select all occurrences.

Can see that in the 'find' dialogue window

Double-click the character style.

Cannot see this option; where is it please?

#5

Am 14.10.2011 12:39, e-letter wrote:

Use the "Find All" button to select all occurrences.

Can see that in the 'find' dialogue window

Double-click the character style.

Cannot see this option; where is it please?

And I don't even know which component you are talking about (not to talk about gory details like OS and office version).
You assume that we know what you mean and I assume that you know what I mean.

#6

I just updated to LO 3.4.3 in a Windows 7 laptop.

[ctrl]+F used to bring up "Find" but now it doesn't.

Checked keyboard shortcuts and it shows [ctrl]+F is 'find' for LO but is blank for Writer.

Also menu selections edit>Find or edit>Find and Replace show keyboard shortcuts but don't work either. But the binocular icon on the toolbar does work.

How do I get the keyboard shortcuts to work?

Jerry

PS: I know this was discussed before but couldn't find a search function on the archive page!

#7

Hi Jerry,

Libre User wrote (14-10-11 22:20)

I just updated to LO 3.4.3 in a Windows 7 laptop.

[ctrl]+F used to bring up "Find" but now it doesn't.

Checked keyboard shortcuts and it shows [ctrl]+F is 'find' for LO but is
blank for Writer.

Sorry to hear that it does not work or is not obvious.

Also menu selections edit>Find or edit>Find and Replace show keyboard
shortcuts but don't work either. But the binocular icon on the toolbar
does work.

How do I get the keyboard shortcuts to work?

I cannot test on WIndows 7, but as for me (Linux):
Ctrl-F opens the search toolbar - possibly a bit hidden at the bottom.
   (type what you search, Enter to find or for next, Esc to close..)
Ctrl-H should open the older Search & Replace dialog.

If that does not work ... could it be that you have some previous custom settings with key bindings/short cuts? That might influence (anyway it did in former times) the availability of newly introduced short cuts.

HTH,

#8

Am 14.10.2011 22:20, Libre User wrote:

I just updated to LO 3.4.3 in a Windows 7 laptop.

[ctrl]+F used to bring up "Find" but now it doesn't.

Checked keyboard shortcuts and it shows [ctrl]+F is 'find' for LO but is
blank for Writer.

Also menu selections edit>Find or edit>Find and Replace show keyboard
shortcuts but don't work either. But the binocular icon on the toolbar
does work.

How do I get the keyboard shortcuts to work?

Jerry

PS: I know this was discussed before but couldn't find a search function
on the archive page!

I exported my OOo shortcuts into a file, imported the file into LibO and disabled that completely useless find toolbar.
There are too many mindless "features" in LibreOffice.

#9

Jerry,

Looks to be functional, but is state full in Windows 7, so it could be undocked somewhere in your UI that you can see as Cor suggests.

Use the View --> Toolbars --> Find menu to toggle the Find box On.

Then grab any toolbar and drag it to undock --> open the tool menu (down triangle) and select Dock ALL Toolbars.

That should return the active Find toolbar to its default docked location and allow <Ctl>+F activation.

Stuart

#10

Thank you. Did not notice the new find toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Was looking for the old dialog box to open. I think I like the new toolbar better.

Jerry

#11

Stuart,

Thank you.

I moved the find toolbar up to the top of the screen where it's much more useful for me. I also like the up/down arrows because I usually know which direction I want to search but with the old search box, it was usually set for the wrong direction.

Jerry

#12

And I don't even know which component you are talking about (not to talk
about gory details like OS and office version).

writer, linux, lo331

So when you write that to double-click a character style, cannot see
this in the find dialogue window with all options made visible

#13

e-letter wrote (15-10-11 19:31)

So when you write that to double-click a character style, cannot see
this in the find dialogue window with all options made visible

:slight_smile:
The character styles - as all others - can be applied via the window Styles and Formatting.
And obviously for this case, also with a multiple selection.

Cheers,

#14

Hi Jerry,

Libre User wrote (14-10-11 22:46)

Thank you. Did not notice the new find toolbar at the bottom of the
screen. Was looking for the old dialog box to open.

Ah, I remember that effect from the first time too :slight_smile:

I think I like the new toolbar better.

You're not alone in that :wink:
One thing: if you've done some settings in the F&R *dialogue*, e.g. selection or case sensitive, those will have effect too on the next use of the find tool bar!

Cheers,

#15

With help like this coming so fast, I will stay with the list despite the theological disputes that erupt from time to time here. Won't mention the topics or it will get them started again.

Thanks again for the rapid help.

Jerry

#16

I don't want the find toolbar displayed all the time.

I can close it with the tool menu (that I get to through the small, inobvious triangle that I only found because Stuart told us about it in the message quoted below), but the blank bar is still there eating screen space. I can close the find tool bar completely with

view>toolbar
unselect Find

I don't want the find bar occupying screen real estate all the time, I don't want it there by default, and it is a bit of a hassle to go to the view menu to remove it.

The find tool should not be there all the time. It wasn't in earlier OO and LO versions. The find tool needs a "close button".

How do I easily make the find tool go away after use?

David

Jerry,

Looks to be functional, but is state full in Windows 7, so it could be undocked somewhere in your UI that you can see as Cor suggests.

Use the View --> Toolbars --> Find menu to toggle the Find box On.

Then grab any toolbar and drag it to undock --> open the tool menu (down triangle) and select Dock ALL Toolbars.

That should return the active Find toolbar to its default docked location and allow<Ctl>+F activation.

Stuart

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#17

Hi,

I don't want the find toolbar displayed all the time.

I can close it with the tool menu (that I get to through the small,
inobvious triangle that I only found because Stuart told us  about it in the
message quoted below), but the blank bar is still there eating screen space.
I can close the find tool bar completely with

view>toolbar
unselect Find

I don't want the find bar occupying screen real estate all the time, I don't
want it there by default, and it is a bit of a hassle to go to the view menu
to remove it.

The find tool should not be there all the time. It wasn't in earlier OO and
LO versions. The find tool needs a "close button".

How do I easily make the find tool go away after use? [...]

That should work with the 'escape key' (Esc).

mjk

#18

Hi :slight_smile:
Can you right-click on it and choose "close tool-bar"? On mine there is a little separator at the beginning of the tool-bar to separate it from the rest of the icons tool-bar and that seems to be about the best place to try right-clicking.

I hide the table's & the pictures' toolbar around there when i want to try to stop them popping up in inconvenient places.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: