Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

At 20:40 13/12/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote:
> I have a 20,000 row file I am supposed to "review" (a translation by 
> someone else) While changing things, I made a mistake and now one 
> particular word appears as ((word)) Naturally, the double brackets 
> are NOT wanted. When I try to search and replace them, Calc tell me, 
> there are no such double brackets. But they are right in front of me 
> on the screen. Is there any particular reason why I cannot search for  "((" ?

In the Find & Replace dialogue, click More Options. You probably have 
"Regular expressions" ticked. Untick it and try again.

> The "same" applies to searching for "," and replace that by "." (of 
> course, none of these searches uses the ")

Remember that what you see in a spreadsheet cell may very well not be 
there! If those commas are fractional separators in numbers - e.g. 
1,23 - they are not there in the same sense as then would be as text. 
The details of this depend on your locale settings.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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