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Regular Expressions in Writer (LibreOffice): A Complete Guide

Posted by Alex On July 9, 2024

Table of contents 1. How does search using regular expressions differ from regular search? Why use regular expressions for search and replace 2. Features of regular expression search Writer (LibreOffice) 3. How to enable regular expression search in Writer (LibreOffice) 4. Writer (LibreOffice) regular expression syntax 4.1 Literal meaning of symbols 4.2 Any character 4.3 Character ranges 4.4 Specifying the...

How to paste unformatted text in Writer (LibreOffice) using Ctrl+V

Posted by Alex On April 9, 2024

By default, the Writer text editor in LibreOffice recognizes different clipboard contents depending on the program you copied the text from. For example, if you copied a fragment from a site (web page), then in addition to the always present “Unformatted text” option, there will also be the insertion option “HyperText Markup Language (HTML)”. If you copied a fragment from...

How to change the Word Completion key and other Word Completion settings in Writer (LibreOffice)

Posted by Alex On April 9, 2024

Word completion is a text editor feature that offers suggestions for the complete word as you type words. If you see that the program has suggested the correct word, then you can press the button (“Enter” by default) and the word will be added automatically. All in all, it is a handy feature, although it does take some getting used...

How to fix LibreOffice stopped starting. Resetting LibreOffice without launching (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On September 6, 2023

LibreOffice won't start LibreOffice is a free office document editor. In terms of functions, LibreOffice is similar to MS Office, but LibreOffice is open source and this office suite works on all major operating systems, including Linux. I have been using LibreOffice extensively almost every day for several hours for many years now. I am satisfied with the functionality of...

What program to open .docbook files (DocBook)

Posted by Alex On February 20, 2021

In fact, .docbook files are not meant to be read - they are meant to be converted to HTML, man, PDF, DOCX, ODT, EPUB, FictionBook2, and many others. What is DocBook? DocBook is an XML-based standard used in many modern documentation tasks. When you want to create a DocBook document source, you write XML files that describe the document's layout,...