Question

Write the steps to Find and Replace a word with another word in OpenOffice Writer?

Answer 1

OpenOffice Writer has a Find and Replace feature that helps to locate text inside a document and replace it with another word. In addition to finding and replacing words and phrases, we can also use wildcards and regular expressions to perform advanced search. To search a word:

1. Click Edit → Find & Replace (or) Ctrl + F
2. The Find & Replace dialog box appears as shown below.
   Find & Replace dialog box

• Steps to And & replace a text:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To replace text, click Replace button.
   The highlighted word is replaced with the word given in the replace with box.
4. Click Find All, Writer selects all instances of the search text in the document.
   All occurrences of Bombay are highlighted.
5. Click Replace AH button, Writer replaces all matches.
   This will replace all occurrences of “Bombay” with “Mumbai”.
6. Enable Match case to perform the search case sensitively so that uppercase and lower cases are distinguished separately.
7. Enable Whole Words only to make the search more specific to words used separately alone.