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

Hi :)
Blimey!  I can't believe how many different ways of doing it have been
suggested and how many answers this thread has received.  Brilliant work
everyone!  I learn tons through this thread and really enjoyed it.
Many thanks and regards from
Tom :)



On 31 August 2014 18:30, anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:

>        Maybe it doesn't work in Linux,
>           but LO's 'Find-Replace' works with multiple documents for me;
>            [still with 3.4 ]
>
>        The only thing that never worked is the 'Find', for some reason  ;-)
>           I'll click on that one by mistake at times, only to have the
> document sit doing nothing ...
>          then I click on the Find-Replace and can find, or whatever, fine
> ;-)
>
>        Was this a bug back-then or what?
>
>
>
> From: Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text
> search in set of documents?
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>
>
> On 08/30/2014 07:34 AM, James Wilde wrote:
>
> > On 2014-08-30 13:29, Tom Davies wrote:
> >
> > > Hi :)
> > > Hmm, sadly Writer doesn't seem to do quite the same thing as GEdit.
> > Tom, I have an idea that there is a find/copy/paste add-on for LO which
> > works on multiple files.  I used it when I was using LO for my writing
> > (I now use Scrivener for books and such).  I could change the name of a
> > character throughout a book with a simple command.
> >
> > James
> Yes, I remember something like that as well, but I do not remember what it
> was or what version of LO it was used with.
>
> That would be real handy for book authors and editors.
>
> Piers Anthony, a highly regarded SciFi and Fantasy writer, used Fedora and
> LO for writing his books.  He is in his mid 70's now so he has scaled back
> to 1 or 2 books per year, instead of 3 or more.  He has created macros to
> help him do the work he needs and uses a different keyboard layout than the
> standard QWERTY keyboard.  In one of his Author's Notes, he stated that he
> needed a package that worked with his type of keyboard and had the ability
> to create/use the types of macros he needs for making his writing easier.
> He seems to be a big "fan" of having multiple documents open at the same
> time and editing across those documents.
>
> SO, you should be able to find the extension needed for your cross-document
> editing.
>
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