I want to find digits like 0:56 or 6:56 in Libre Writer. I assume I need to use wild cards in Find and Replace. I have searched the web to no avail, can anyone help
Thanks
Version: 7.6.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 38d5f62f85355c192ef5f1dd47c5c0c0c6d6598b
CPU threads: 12; OS: Mac OS X 15.2; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Look for regular expressions instead:
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.html
A sequence of digits [:digit:]+
and for : I think you have to mask it:
[:digit:]+\:[:digit:]+
\d+:\d+
would also do. You don’t have to mask colon outside of square brackets (and eventhere, not always).
Thanks for your speedy reply - will give it a try
Dave
Hi tried both of those solutions neither worked it just says ‘search key not found’.
I’m very surprised there isn’t a simple way of achieving this [as there is in Word]. Unfortunately I can’t run Word on my Mac
Thanks for your time
You need to do something complicated:
Open Other Options and select Regular expression.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/01/02100000.html