I have a document with a long list of song titles, each of which ending with a carriage return. I want to do searches from the search bar in order to find particular song titles. For example, I might want to find items in the list that begin with “The”, but I don’t want to find all "The"s that appear within each - only the ones at the beginning. So I want to do a search for the word “The” preceded with a carriage return. How can I do this?
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In the Find: field type ^The, and check Regular expressions.
LibreOffice Help on Using Regular Expressions in Text Searches, and List of Regular Expressions.
Tested with LibreOffice 6.4.7.2 (x86); OS: Windows 6.1.
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Thank you very much LeroyG. That was very helpful.
You’re welcome!