Fantastic OpenOffice.org Writer extension for searching and replacing carriage returns (two in a row, etc.) with regular expressions, plus much much more

If you've been typing $^$ into the regular OpenOffice Writer search and replace dialog and coming up empty, try this plugin. It's awesome. It lets you look for a series of empty paragraph returns, or a carriage return at the end of a paragraph plus one empty return, and MUCH much more.

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AltSearch

Download then choose Tools > Extension Manager to install. Restart OOo and you'll see a new icon in the upper left corner on the main toolbar.

Here's the page.

 

Here's the icon you get when you restart OpenOffice.

 

Here's the window.

 
 Here's the list of regular expression options.

 

And here's an example of what the shown expression found.

 

Comments

[Edward.H]

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