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
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
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