<p class="TextInTable">Only finds the word if it appears at the beginning of a paragraph. Special contents (e.g., blank spaces and character-anchored frames) at the beginning of a paragraph will be ignored.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Only finds the word if it appears at the end of a paragraph. Special contents (e.g., blank spaces and character-anchored frames) at the end of a paragraph will be ignored.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The character in front of it can occur from zero times up to any number of times: For example, "Ab*c" finds "Ac", "Abc", "Abbc", "Abbbc" etc.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">For "any characters or no characters", the combination .* may be used.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The character before this symbol must appear at least once, or in unlimited instances: "AX.+4" finds "AX 4", but not "AX4"</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The longest possible text within the paragraph is always found. If the paragraph contains the text AX 4 AX4, it will find from the first A to the last 4.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Finds precisely this character (no digits), in this case C (if, for example, you want to look for the dollar sign yourself in a regular expression: \$)</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Finds a hard row break which has been inserted with Shift+Enter. Use this sign to change row breaks into paragraph breaks. Enter a <span class="T1">\n</span> in the <span class="T1">Search for</span> as well as the <span class="T1">Replace with</span> fields. Now activate the <span class="T1">Replace all</span> button.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">This character in the <span class="T1">Replace with</span> box inserts the find_text.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">"Window" in the <span class="T1">Search for</span> field and "&frame" in the <span class="T1">Replace with</span> fields returns "window frame" with <span class="T1">Replace</span>.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Only enter & in the <span class="T1">Replace with</span> box if you want to apply different <span class="T1">Attributes</span> or a different <span class="T1">Format</span> to the find_text.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Finds the character with the four-digit hexadecimal code XXXX.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The number of the character and hence of the code depends on the font used. You can find the codes in <span class="T1">Insert - Special Character</span>.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The last character before the opening bracket must appear the number of times indicated by the number in the brackets. 8{2} finds 88.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">The last character before the opening bracket must appear the number of times indicated by the numbers in the brackets. 8{1,2} finds 8 and 88.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Use round brackets to define the characters inside the brackets as a reference. Thereafter, you can refer to the first reference in the current expression with \1, to the second reference with \2 and so on.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">If your text contains the number 13487889 and you search for the regular expression (8)7\1\1, the number 8788 will be found.</p>
<p class="TextInTable">Finds upper case letters.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph"><help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="DRAW"/><help:case select="IMPRESS"/><help:default>For a logical search expression with nested AND/OR operators, you can use brackets. For example, " ((a[A-z]*)|(ab[A-z]*)|(b[A-z]*))$" looks for everything beginning with a space and then "a" or "ab" or "b" and stands at the end of a paragraph.</help:default></help:switch></p>
