Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

To answer my own question:

1. Use the Find and Replace box and Reg. Exp.. Click on "Find All".

2. Close "Find and Replace" dialog.

3. Right click on one of the highlighted letters. Format- Text- Upper case


On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote:
> I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write 
> some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing.
>
> I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case 
> first letter. So I need to find the first letter of every paragraph in 
> the document and convert it to upper case.
>
> I thought of using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions, which is 
> easy. ^[:lower:] finds every lower case letter which is the first 
> letter of a paragraph. But when I enter [:upper:] in the replace box 
> it simply pastes the text [:upper:] . I have both the "match case" and 
> "regular expressions" boxes ticked.
>
> Is there a way to do this other than going through the document ad 
> replacing manually?
>
> Thank you
>
> Keith


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