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

Hi :)
Congrats on figuring it out and adapting Brian's advice until it did
work.  Brian is usually precisely and exactly right so it's good to
see he's human too.  Also thanks for posting the correct answer back
to the mailing-list so that people in the future have more hope of
finding the exact right answer! :)

Nicely done! :)  Congrats and regards from
Tom :)

On 18 March 2014 03:53, Ankush Mishra <ankushmishra9@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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