[NTLUG:Discuss] Is there a way in OpenOffice

[Leroy Tennison]

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> I just tested it out under OO.o and it does what you ask.  I compared 
> this functionality to MS Word and it will select ALL occurrences of a 
> given word or expression.  But they both have the ability to operate 
> within a selection instead of the whole document.
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>> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>> to select some text, search for a string and have the text between the 
>>> initial point and the "found string" be selected?
>>>
>>> I'm on 2.02.  Thanks for any help.
>> I doubt it.  OOo is pretty primitive as far as editing goes.
>> Might be able to right something custom that "speaks" to OOo...
>> but nothing out there that I know of.
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OK, maybe I'm dense, can you provide a step-by-step?  I noted that the 
Add and Extend functions worked if you manually did the 
addition/extension but I want Search to extend the selection.

Also, what version of OO.o?