How do I use Find & Replace to copy and paste multiple symbols at once?

How do I use Find & Replace to copy and paste symbols? In this case, I want to paste a small Wingdings box.

Why would you use F&R when you just want to paste a symbol? If you need to explain, edit your question (don’t use an answer which is fit for a solution). Have you tried Insert>Special Characters?

@ajlittoz - of course you are right. Though trying to avoid assumptions … made one and posted an answer :frowning:

Thanks for the responses!

You asked, “Why would you use F&R when you just want to paste a symbol?” Because I want to paste a thousand symbols into a thousand places on one document and would prefer doing it with one action rather than a thousand actions.

In Word, I would copy the symbol then type ^c into the replace field and that worked. Is there something similar in LibreOffice?

Hello,

just

  • open an emtpy file
  • Insert the Wingdings box using Insert -> Special charcter
  • Copy the Wingdings box into the Replace field in Edit -> Find & Replace (in the file you want to modify)

Remark: There is also a method using \u<4-digit-hexcode-of-charcter> method, but this is font dependent.

Since you did not tell what you want to replace, I cannot give you the full solution.

Worked for me using LibreOffice:

Version: 6.3.3.2, Build ID: a64200df03143b798afd1ec74a12ab50359878ed
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.12; UI render: default; VCL: kde5;
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US, Calc: threaded

Thanks for the response. Please see my comment to the first response above.

This is answer is about top copy on thousand places - but your question did not specify, where - so I need to leave off what to enter into the Find box in “Find & Replace”. May be you missed that I wrote for that reason: "Since you did not tell what you want to replace, I cannot give you the full solution.* and you just get consfused about the first two steps, which is only about to get the Special character into the clipboard (you comment states:I would copy the symbol…) so you could simply paste it to the Replace field in the “real” Find & Replace dialog.

OPAQUE

Apologies but I didn’t get your meaning the first time.

I got it this time and that works just fine.

Thank you!

NEAL

No problem - So please, If the answer is correct or helped you to solve your problem, please click the check mark (:heavy_check_mark:) next to the answer.

you can direct copy and paste like, trademark, infinite, copyright symbol