<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Check this box to activate the similarity search and define the various options with the<span style="font-weight:bold;"> ...</span> button.</help:help-text></p>
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<p class="Paragraph">This function performs a better search for matches and, therefore, differs from a search with regular expressions. For example, it can find words that differ from the search term by two characters, which can be either exchanged, deleted or inserted in a different position.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Use this button to open a dialog where settings for the similarity search are made.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Head2">Settings</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Define the conditions under which a word is considered similar.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Enter here how many characters in the search term <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>can be exchanged.</help:help-text> For example, if you specify a maximum of 2 exchanged characters <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>the words "black" and "crack" are considered similar.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Enter by how many lines the word in the document may be longer than the search term for it to still remain valid.</help:help-text> The additional lines may lay anywhere in the word - at the beginning, at the end or inside.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Enter by how many lines the word in the document may be shorter than the search term for it to still remain valid.</help:help-text> The lines may be removed from the word at any position - at the beginning, at the end or inside.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Mark this field to combine the three basic conditions.</help:help-text> The search term is then found if the word in the document can be generated through any combination of the three basic conditions.</p>