Re: [libreoffice-users] Correcting a formatting error.

Chris -

When you search for " :-" sans quotes, is that a hyphen in the search or 
a long dash?

If you highlight the text you want to search for and then do Edit > Find 
and Replace, the highlighted text should appear in the Find field, and 
should be found.

The Google suggestion doesn't make sense to me, and regular expressions 
shouldn't be involved for this.

- Robert

On 2026-07-10 15:23, Chris J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> When interrupting speech in a story, think dramatic pause, it seems 
> you are NOT supposed to leave a space between the previous word and a 
> dash, en, em, or long. I used the interpreted colon (:) method for my 
> pause and did leave a space. Now I have to correct all that. I was 
> hoping there was a way to use find & replace.
>
>
> Google told me to try turning off auto replace in Tools -> Auto 
> correct -> options. Tried that. Doesn't seem to have worked. I still 
> see the long dash in the text and find says can't find search key when 
> I give it " :-" sans quotes. Tried turning on Regular expressions and 
> still no search key found.
>
>
> Is  there any way to automate fixing this or do I have to slog through 
> to whole story by hand? Thanks.

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