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

Thanks, John. You are right. I always have to complicate things!


On 6/3/20 4:33 am, John Kaufmann wrote:
> > 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?
> On 2020-03-05 04:00, 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
>
> Keith, I like your solution (and Brian's, which is as elegant as the 
> way he presented it), but am confused about step 3: do you /really/ 
> right-click (for context menu)? From step 1, you already have the 
> first letter of each paragraph in focus; don't you just go from there 
> to the main menu <Format-Text-UPPERCASE>? [The order of steps 2 and 3 
> has no effect - or, to put it another way, step 2 is not essential to 
> your solution.]
>
> John 


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