Does LibreOffice Writer have search and replace wildcards that are comparable to <*> and ^& in Word? I want to search any string and replace it with the same string with modification.
For example, I would search for any string that was bolded (<*> with bold on in Word), and then replace it with the same string with bbbb before and after (bbbb^&bbbb in Word). This allows me to mark all the instances of bold in a document before converting to plain text (i.e. removing every scrap of formatting in a document by running it through Notepad). When I’m through removing formatting, I can then go back, find all the bbbb, and convert them back into bold text.
Any idea if it is possible to do that?
Thanks.
