Re: [libreoffice-users] Find & find and replace targets.

Regina -

I started by doing a copy/paste because of the quotation mark, but then 
I discovered that just typing " into either /Find/ or /Find and Replace/ 
resulted in a curly double quotation mark being found.

- Robert

On 2025-10-29 16:27, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Chris J. schrieb am 29.10.2025 um 20:52:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> >
> > If this is in the manual, would someone please tell me where to look.
> >
> >
> > I need to replace ." (that's dot double quote) with ," (comma double 
> > quote.) Anyone having written attributed dialog will immediately 
> > recognize what I've done wrong. I can't get Find or Find & Replace to 
> > find .". I tried  turning on regular expressions, That doesn't seem 
> > to work ether.
>
> It works for me with the Find&Replace dialog, without the need of 
> regular expressions. I enter ." in the Find field and ," in the 
> Replace field.
>
> Are you sure about the double quote? Perhaps you confuse the 
> typographical double quote mark (U+201C, U+201D, U+201F) with the 
> straight quotation mark (U+22) or even with a double prime (U+2033)?
>
> Tipp: copy&past the string from the text into both fields. Then change 
> the dot in the Replace field to a comma.
>
> Kind regards,
> Regina
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