Cannot find and replace period (full stop)

[ocorlett]

I am trying to replace in a Write document a sequence of characters which includes a period (full stop). The trouble is, Write seems to regard the period as being like a wildcard: it replaces everything. For example, if I want to replace all the periods in a selected paragraph with, say, the character “x”, it just turns every character in the paragraph to x. I have tried to see if there is a special character definition of the period, but there doesn’t seem to be.

[PKG]

Find: \.

[ocorlett]

Thank you, that works!

[ajlittoz]

Or untick the box Regular expressions in case your sequence is just made of literal characters (no categories likes spaces \s or groups like [a-z] [0-9].

[Wanderer]

@ocorlett

if there is a special character definition of the period, but there doesn’t seem to be.

You have to look here:
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/02100001.html