Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer Search and replace

Hello,
You can use the standard search and replace with "Regular Expressions"
enabled.

Open the Find and Replace panel, select "Regular expressions" at the
bottom. Then seach for your "consistent text" and replace with
\n"consistent text" (without the quotes). Do not forget to disable
regular expression for future searches and replacements if you want to
have the usual behaviour after that.

You can look in the help to have more information with searching and
replacing using regular expressions: look for "List of Regular
Expressions".

I hope this helps.
Rémy.


Le samedi 16 mai 2026 à 22:40 +0100, Ian Bertram a écrit :
> I have a large (800+ pp) document, the back up from a former Typepad 
> blog, which I am trying to reformat. I am trying to use search and 
> replace to find the consistent text at the start of each post and 
> replace it with the same text preceded by a page break. Neither
> search 
> and replace or the extended  Alt search and replace plugin seem to be
> able to handle page break as a regular expression. Guidance please.
>
> Ian Bertram
>
> Version: 26.2.1.2 (X86_64)
> Build ID: 620(Build:2)
> CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: 
> Skia/Raster; VCL: win
> Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
> Calc: threaded

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