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43 Search and Replace

Under Edit › Find & Replace (Ctrl

f) you can search through your whole document

for a particular string of text. If you happen to have mistyped a complicated name, you can

use this menu to replace the wrong spelling with the correct one.

I myself very often use the search tool for a quite different purpose: I “mark” any incomplete

passages in my text with the optically salient ###, allowing me to locate them easily the next

day.

You can also use this function to replace a style with another style (select More Options).

This is especially useful to rid yourself of superfluous styles.

Using More Options you can also search for and delete specific text elements such as empty

lines. You use Regular expressions to accomplish this task. So in the search field you

would type the regular expression “^$” and then press Replace all.

44 Auto Spell Check

In the menu bar you can activate AutoSpellCheck (the ABC-Button or using F7). Any mis-

spelled words will appear underlined in red. Lots of these words are in fact not necessarily

misspelled, the programme simply does not have them in its dictionary. To add an unknown

word to the standard dictionary right-click it and choose Add › standard.dic. – though

this only makes sense if you are sitting at your own computer. You can edit the stand-

ard.dic directly with an ordinary editor, adding one new entry per line. After restarting

OpenOffice standard.dic updates itself and becomes available with the new entries.

The language in use is defined in the paragraph style under the tab Font. So a text containing

several languages can be spell checked providing you have the appropriate dictionaries

installed. For further language settings go to menu Tools › Options › Language set-

tings.

45 Synonyms

Under Tools › Language › Thesaurus (Ctrl

F7) the programme lists quite a few

alternatives to the word right under the cursor. A good online thesaurus is

thefreedictionary.com.

46 Document Infos

Sometimes you might want to store general information about your file. To do this, go to

File › Properties › Description. In the same menu under the tab Statistics you

will get a summary of number of paragraphs, words, characters and so on your text contains.

A more succinct version can accessed directly under the menu Tools › Word Count. If you

want the same information for just one particular section, mark it beforehand.

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