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

At 18:28 05/03/2020 +1100, 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 and replacing manually?

At 20:00 05/03/2020 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:
> 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

Does this also work?
o Find: ^. (caret-dot)
o Replace: & (ampersand)
o Tick "Regular expressions". (No need for "Match case".)
o With the cursor in the Replace box, click Format... .
o On the Font Effects tab, for Effects select Capitals.
o Replace All.
o Voilà!

Brian Barker 


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