Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

There could be a feature request. In the existing find and replace 
dialogue to have an option "All open documents".
You need only have the documents opened in LO and working on multiple 
documents you can search and replace them as one.
Steve
On 2014-08-29 05:31, Maurice wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:09:06 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
>
> > why not simply _insert_ the other documents into one and do one's
> > search?
> >
> > 'insert-->file-->...'
> Whether using Tom's suggestion of drag-'n-drop or yours to 'Insert file',
> both would bee tedious when several files are often involved, but would
> be
> usable in the occasional general case.
>
> The particular requirement is for a routine search through the same
> set of files, with the requirement that the contents are the latest
> version
> in each case, so for convenience it needs to be a pre-defined list.
>
> It may be that the Master Document facility will allow me to have a
> master
> document that permanently lists that set of files, and brings their
> current
> contents in dynamically whenever the master document is opened.
>    Will look further into that; I'm hoping that the contents of each file
> are
> not frozen at the time when they are first inserted into the master.
>
>    Thanks to all for pointing out so many options! Much appreciated...


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