Find & Replace

Finds or replaces text or formats in the current document.

Find

Enter the text that you want to find, or select a previous search from the list.

Search options are listed under the Find box and in the Other options area of the dialog.

Match case

Distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase characters.

Whole words only

Searches for whole words or cells that are identical to the search text.

Replace

Enter the replacement text, or select a recent replacement text or style from the list.

Replacement options are listed under the Find box and in the Other options area of the dialog.

Find All

Finds and selects all instances of the text or the format that you are searching for in the document (only in Writer and Calc documents).

Find Previous

Finds and selects the previous occurrence of the text or format that you are searching for in the document.

Find Next

Finds and selects the next occurrence of the text or format that you are searching for in the document.

Replace

Replaces the selected text or format that you searched for, and then searches for the next occurrence.

Replace All

Replaces all of the occurrences of the text or format that you want to replace.

Other options

Shows more or fewer search options. Click this label again to hide the extended search options.

Current selection only

Searches only the selected text or cells.

Replace backwards

Search starts at the current cursor position and goes backwards to the beginning of the file.

Regular expressions

Allows you to use regular expressions in your search.

List of Regular Expressions

After you select the attributes that you want to search for, the Paragraph Styles box in the Other options area of the Collabora Office Writer Find & Replace dialog changes to Including Styles.

If you want to search for text in which attributes were set by using direct formatting and styles, select the Including Styles box.

Match character width (only if Asian languages are enabled)

Distinguishes between half-width and full-width character forms.

Sounds like (Japanese) (only if Asian languages are enabled)

Lets you specify the search options for similar notation used in Japanese text. Select this checkbox, and then click the Sounds button to specify the search options.

Searching in Japanese

Comments

In Writer, you can select to include the comment texts in your searches.

Attributes

Choose the text attributes that you want to search for. For example, if you search for the Font attribute, all instances of text that do not use the default font are found. All text that has a directly coded font attribute, and all text where a style switches the font attribute, are found.

Searching for Attributes

Format

Finds specific text formatting features, such as font types, font effects, and text flow characteristics.

No Format

Click in the Find or the Replace box, and then click this button to remove the search criteria based on formats.

The search criteria for formatting attributes are displayed under the Find or the Replace box.