Bug 137219

Summary:	Ability to search for patterns involving multiple lines
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	7.0.0.2 rc
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2020-10-03 11:02:10 UTC

I often want to search my documents for consecutive empty paragraphs; and occasionally for patterns with certain text in consecutive paragraphs (or with a line-break between words). But - I just can't do it. MS Word allows me to do it. You would think regexp capabilities would be expanded to recognize a line break or paragraph break - but they aren't...

Please implement this.

PS - There is an extension which supports this, albeit with a rickety UI, named "Alternative dialog find and replace for Writer", by Tomas Bilek.

Comment 1 Daveo 2020-10-18 08:35:33 UTC

Marked as a duplicate of bug 31480

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 31480 ***