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

Thanks, Brian. That is very good.


On 5/3/20 8:52 pm, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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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