Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with formatting a piece of text?

On 17-03-2014 22:27, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 20:44 17/03/2014 +0530, Ankush Mishra wrote:
> > I have a question on formatting a text multiple times in Writer. Here 
> > is my situation:  I have a file which has a set of text like 
> > Date:<insert date here> separated by new lines every time. There 
> > might be over 100's of these in the file, now I want to format them 
> > to Headings, would there be an easy way to do so without doing each 
> > and every single one of them by hand? I can try a Search and replace 
> > with Regexp but not sure if I will be able to just change the 
> > formatting, while also reverting to the original text.
>
> There is.  In the Find & Replace dialogue, put "&" in the "Replace 
> with" box - to indicate that you want the string found to be put back 
> in place.  With the cursor in the "Replace with" box, click Format... 
> (in the More Options area) and select the text format you wish to 
> apply.  Ideally, you ought to want to apply a character style instead, 
> but I don't see any obvious way to do this.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
Thank you for your suggestion, it helped. Though I did it slightly 
different than what you suggested because "Format" does not set 
Paragraph Styles. Here's what I did - First I performed a regular 
expression search and selected "Find All" which selected all the Text 
which I wanted to format. Then in "More Options" I selected "Search for 
Paragraph Styles" and "Current Selection Only", and then changed the 
"Replace with" to "Heading 1", and then selected "Replace All".

Thank you for your help it was appreciated.

A. M.

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