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

Chris -

What do you mean by using the 'interpreted colon (:) method' for your 
pause. I am not familiar with that method or syntax, and as far as I 
know LO Writer is not familiar with it.

- Robert

On 2026-07-10 16:22, Robert Funnell wrote:
> 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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