Re: [libreoffice-users] replace normal font with superscript

Wouldn't a character style handle this? That would mean using
character styles, of course, but that is the first thing I thought of.

Regards,

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
<andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> When I had to do something similar, I wrote a macro :-)
>
> If you do not know much about macros, you probably need to record one,
> and I expect that the macro recorder is poor enough that the only real
> solution would be to do the first one by hand, copy the correct result
> to the clipboard, then record a macro that pastes the value and then
> searches for the next occurrence. If you are left with a regular m2
> selection, run the macro again. if not, well, you are finished.
>
> On 10/02/2013 04:50 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> > Good evening
> > Thisis probably a rather stupid question and has been answered on this
> > list (somewhere) a million times ...
> >
> > (The job is already done - manually - so there is no hurry; I would like
> > to know the trick.)
> >
> > I had a piece of text (txt file), which contained a lot of things like
> > "m2" (square meter).
> > Working in Writer I tried to do a "find and replace" and turn the "2"
> > into superscript.
> > But I could not figure out how that works. I ALWAYS got "m2" as
> > superscript, even I selected only "2" and then format -> superscript.
> > (after I while of trying I gave up and replaced those number manually)
> >
> > What is the trick required to turn "2" into superscript?
> > But ONLY in "m2" and not all "2", since there were lots of other numbers
> > too.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Thomas
>
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>
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