Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Prompt On Replace

On Sunday, 9 September 2018 03:59:44 BST arakish wrote:
> Guess I should have elaborated.
>
> There is also a button for "Replace All"
>
> However, there is no check box for "Prompt on Replace"
>
> All other word processors have this feature.  Only LibreOffice does not. 
> Don't know about Open Office since I have not used it since LibreOffice 2.x.
>
> I even use a text editor called HTML-Kit that is about 20 years old that
> offers the "Prompt on Replace" feature.
>
> Basically, it allows me to "Replace All" but a few occurrences.  Say I have
> a 50 page document and want to replace a certain word that I know occurs 50
> times.  However, there may be about 5 occurrences I do not want to replace. 
> It is easier to click the "Replace All" button with the "Prompt on Replace"
> checkbox checked.  Then as it goes through and finds the word, it stops,
> prompting on whether to complete the "replace."
>
> Clarified enough?
>
> rmfr
What i do is I first press <replace> and that finds the first occurrence and if i don't want to 
replace it, i press <find next>, I then either press <replace> or <find next> for every occurrence.

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