• Naomi Winebrenner Nov 18, 2021, 7:34 PM (2 months ago)

  I don't know if it's the new update or what, but this went from working like a dream to not working at all on the one thing I *need* it for (replacing all numerals in a selection with superscript numerals). It still does ordinary find and replace, just not that.

  • Erin Kretsmer Nov 29, 2021, 5:25 PM (57 days ago)

    Naomi, I don't know if this helps, but there are multiple releases available on this page. Perhaps you could uninstall, download an earlier version, and use the older version for your purpose.

• Peter T Oct 24, 2021, 10:35 PM (3 months ago)

  An extremely useful extension that I have been using for a long time with OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Thanks for this.
  
  The tooltip and menu item used to show "Alt. Najít a nahradit", so I patched "addon.xcu" to fix that. The country codes must be removed from the language codes, i.e. it must be "en" instead of "en-GB" etc., then the correct translation is displayed.

• Adalbert Hanssen Aug 14, 2021, 4:16 PM (5 months ago)

  It is extremely useful. Its functionality should be built into LibreOffice itself!
  
  But sometimes I encountered bugs. Now I have found how to circumvene the gigantic time consumption if one wants to remove spaces before a paragraph mark: instead of
  
  \s*\p
  
  use
  
  \s{1,}\p
  
  which speeds up the search tremendously! (But I don't know why).

• Alberto Tornaghi May 6, 2021, 3:51 AM (9 months ago)

  Very good extension.
  The button to open the list of regular expressions was functioning the first time, but does not opens the list any more.
  Hoe can I open it? Without this I can not know how to search special characters.
  I'm using writer 6.0 in Linux Mint 19

  • Alberto Tornaghi May 6, 2021, 3:52 AM (9 months ago)

    Don't how or why, it is working again.
    

• Kevin Coonan Apr 2, 2021, 8:15 PM (10 months ago)

  Does this work with current version???

• Ano Nymos Mar 10, 2021, 1:21 AM (11 months ago)

  Can consecutive duplicate lines in libreoffice writer be removed using this extension? For example:
  name
  name
  be replaced with:
  name
  Similar to the regex expression:
  search string: ^.*$\p\1$
  replace string: \1
  Thanks

• Seán Ó Séaghdha Feb 15, 2021, 4:31 AM (11 months ago)

  When _AltSearch is added to the toolbar, it seems to run in Batch mode - ‘Batch 0 is ended’ - is the only output you get. You never see the main dialog.
  
  Had to go searching for AltSearch.txt in the archive and put it in the right folder (it was looking in the Version 4 folder, so I put it in 7 & symlinked). Maybe this is because it had no language file for the interface language?
  
  Once you get over the hurdles of installation & the lack of a toolbar button, it works as advertised.

• fred frazelle Feb 2, 2021, 10:31 PM (12 months ago)

  i have been unable to use this. The program throws an
  
  NoSuchElementException
  namecont:cxx:117
  
  Have a great afternoon! :)
  oLibContainer.LoadLibrary(LibName)

• good guy Jan 20, 2021, 5:10 PM (12 months ago)

  extremely helpful, thanx!
  one thing (which i hope would be a quick fix): searching for multiple (ie: with the '||' separator), but replacing with just 1 thing, works fine in single step 'replace', but does not in 'replace all'. there only the first matching item gets replaced. typical use: search for a word list and replace with a highlight. i have a list of 200 words, why should i write 200 times "\A{CharBackColor=16711680}||..."
  btw: somehow 'whole words only' does not work, i have to enclose each word with '\<' and '\>', which is okay, only bloats the whole search string.

• Helpful Ducky Dec 28, 2020, 11:08 PM (13 months ago)

  For people who are having trouble installing it, I figured it out. When you try to install the addon, it will give you an error, saying the .oxt does not exist. The last part of the file will be something like "lu####xxxx.tmp_". Navigate to AltSearch.oxt to "C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\". Create a folder within that, named whatever you copied from the error message: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\uno_packages\cache\uno_packages\lu####xxxx.tmp_\ and place the AltSearch.oxt in there. Then try to install it. It should work -it did for me, LO version 7.0.1.2 (x64) 12/28/2020

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