Recently I was asked about wildcard searches in OpenOffice – MS Office allows this through the use of Ctrl-F and using the asterisk sign to replace any values inbetween.
Eg. To find http://google.com,http://gmail.com, http://gdoc.com), in MS office is ctrl+f, then type in the words “http://g*.com”.
Wildcard searches in OpenOffice
For OpenOffice it is very similar.
To find http://google.com,http://gmail.com, http://gdoc.com), hit Ctrl+F, then type in the words “http://g.*.com”.
Not that instead of using just the asterisk, you now use a full-stop (aka period), and asterisk.
.*
This will find any number of wildcard characters between the letters that you have entered.
If you are searching for just one wildcard character, you use the full-stop (period) only.
Eg. Ctrl-F and enter in “o.en” will find open and oven, but not othen.
If you wish to find 2 wildcard characters, then use two full-stops (periods).
eg. Ctrl-F and enter in “en..y” will find entry and enjoy, but not enoy.
I hope this helps!
At a request from a reader, if you require further information on finding and replacing text, please see the Documentation links below:
Fine tutorial.Nice piece of work.Could have been more discriptive though.Thanks
Rajinda – sure! Let me know what you think was lacking and I’ll be happy to include!
Please assume that we do not know anything and construct the tutorial. Sorry if I sound obtuse.
Best Regards.
rajinda
Rajinda – Ctrl-F is the start… if you hit CTRL-F and then you see the window above.
This is an intermediate tutorial, so some experience with the program is assumed. Perhaps you can go to the Documentation Wiki at : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Working_with_text and check under the heading “Finding and replacing text and formatting” for more basic instruction. I will update this post with this link. Have a great day!