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How to search and replace for special characters in LibreOffice / OpenOffice Writer?

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I love LibreOffice / OpenOffice, but some tasks cannot be done in it, such as is mentioned in this question's title, to search and replace for special characters in Writer. Does anyone know how to do this? This can be done with MS Word (for instance, searching for the paragraph mark "^p", and repla…

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You can certainly use regular expressions in LibreOffice 3.4 as I have just tried it: There's a fuller list of what can and can't be used here: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions Edit: There's some comments on how to dea…

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