
Sun open-sourced the OpenOffice suite in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office, releasing version 1.0 on. OpenOffice was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed ), Apache OpenOffice, Collabora Online (enterprise ready LibreOffice) and NeoOffice (commercial, and available only for macOS). ( OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. exe without JRE) ĭual-licensed under the SISSL and GNU LGPL ( 2 Beta 2 and earlier) When used as a replacement character, it inserts a paragraph marker.Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris ġ43.4 MB (3.3.0 en-US Windows. Use \n instead.įinds a line break that was inserted with Shift+Enter. Log \> finds cata log, but not logistics.ĭoes not work as a replacement character. P st finds p ost and p est, but not past. Examples of search wildcards (regular expressions)Įed finds reed, seed, and teed ranges must be in alphabetically ascending order.Īny single character except the characters inside the brackets Not all regular expressions work as replacement characters the line break (\n) is one that does work.Ĭlick Find, Find All, Replace, or Replace All (not recommended). Type the search text, including the wildcards, in the Search for box and the replacement text (if any) in the Replace with box. On this expanded dialog box (Figure 49), select the Regular expressions checkbox. On the Find & Replace dialog box, click More Options to see more choices. To use wildcards and regular expressions when searching and replacing: For example, to find the text $5.00, you would search for \ $5 \. To search for a character that is defined as a wildcard, type a backslash ( \) before the character. The online help describes many more regular expressions and their uses. Table 1 shows a few of the regular expressions used by OOo. They can save time and effort by combining multiple finds into one.

Regular expressions are very powerful but not very intuitive. Wildcards (also known as regular expressions) are combinations of characters that instruct OOo how to search for something.
