Part - III Find and Replace . Find and 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 and replace a text . Type the text you want to find in the Search for box For Example: To search for a word “Bombay” in a document and replace with “Mumbai”, enter the word “Bombay” in the Search for box . To replace the word 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 The first occurrence of “Bombay” is highlighted .
To replace text, click Replace button. Bombay Mumbai Figure . Find and Replace dialog box 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 occurrences of “Bombay” are highlighted. . Click Replace All button, Writer replaces all matches. This will replace all occurrences 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. For e.g.
if you search for the word "image" the command will only find "image" not "imaging", "images" etc. . Open a new document. • Type the following paragraph • “All birds find shelter during a rain.
But Egles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude make the difference.” • Apply Find & Replace. • Find the word “Egles” and replace it with “Eagles”. • Save the document