[NTLUG:Discuss] Is there a way in OpenOffice

[Daniel Hauck]

I'm using the latest OO.o, but I didn't quite register what you were 
looking for before.  I don't think MS Word does what you're asking for 
either...

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.
>>
>>
>>> 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?
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