Part - III : Find & Replace and Spell check . Find & Replace OpenOffice Writer has a Find and Replace feature that helps to locate for a text inside a document and replace it with another word. In addition to finding and replacing words and phrases, you can also use wildcards and regular expressions to perform advanced search. To search a word • Click Edit → Find & Replace (or) Ctrl + F • The Find & Replace dialog box appears as shown in Figure .
Steps to find & replace a text . Type the text you want to find in the Search for box For Example : To search a word "Bombay" in a document and replace with "Mumbai", enter the word "Bombay" in the Search for box. . To replace the text with different text, type the new text in the Replace with box Enter the word " Mumbai" in the Replace with box and Click Find button , to start the search , the found word is highlighted and the first occurrence of "Bombay" is highlighted.
Bombay Mumbai Figure . Find & Replace dialog box . To replace text, click Replace button. The highlighted word is replaced with the word given in the Replace with box.
. Click Find All, Writer selects all instances of the search text in the document. All occurances of Bombay are highlighted. .
Click Replace All button, Writer replaces all matches. This will replace all occurances of "Bombay" with "Mumbai". . Enable Match case to perform the search case sensitively so that uppercase and lower cases are distinguished separately.
. Enable Whole Words only to make the search more specific to words. For example, if you search for the word "Image", the command will only find "Image" not "Imaging", "Images" etc. .
Spell Check The documents prepared using word processing software should be without any spelling mistake. For this purpose OpenOffice Writer includes a dictionary and a spell check program. OpenOffice Writer can identify the spelling mistakes as the document is typed or after the entire document is typed. .