- Fast selection preset regular and extended expressions
- Searched or replaced text can contain one or more paragraphs
- Search out block of paragraphs delimited by two text marks
- Multiple search and replacement in one step
- Searching: Notes, Text fields, Cross-references and Reference marks to their content, name or mark and their inserting
- Searching and inserting Footnote and Endnote (from version OOo 2.3 only). It is possible to select at once texts of all footnotes or endnotes and to assign them any style
- Searching object of Tables, Pictures and Text frames according to their name; it is possible to substitute them by any text, etc.
- Changing into found or replaced text: paragraph style, character style, list style and Hyperlink's URL and set properties
- Inserting and replacement: clipboard contents, insert replacement counter and page number
- Hexadecimal also decimal submission character for search and replaced
- Searching out manual page and column break and their set up or deactivation
- Searching similarly or the same manually formatted part of text, according to cursor point
- Count found occurrences
- Redirecting result of replacing expression to the other text file
- Batch mode: saving and loading of search and replacement parameters; it is possible to save several searching and replacing subsequently to the single sequence and that whole quickly execute after
- Built-in help (http://www.volny.cz/macrojtb/HelpAltSearch_en.html)
- Language: English, Czech, Russian, Spanish, German
Operating System: Windows | Linux | MacOS X
Date: 2008-Apr-24
Size: 267.42 KB
License: opensource
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Very good!
I really recommend this extension. It is very flexible, and it allows very complex search and replace operations.
I use it to search for broken cross-references. It is irreplaceable for this, as Writer does not offer any other possibility to do so!
Also, Tomas has put very much effort in the documentation, that I find very helpful indeed.
thanks
Really good extension. It's very useful to convert texts form Writer to Spip. Thanks a lot.
S.
es-Es Localization
I've started spanish localization some weeks ago.
It's almost done.
Really good extension.
Localisation
Localisation of AltSearch is possible in next steps:
1. Download files AltSearch_localisation_v1.1.ods and AltSearchHelp_1.1_en.html. First file contains (almost) all strings, second is help file in html format, created in OOo webWriter, I recommend to translate it just in OOo webWriter and keep used paragraphs and characters styles.
2. Finally send translated files to me, e-mail is inside first file.
When you start to translate it, please report it here, so someone else is not doing the same translation.
Thanks to everyone who offered translation.
Tomas
de-De localization
German localization for AltSearch is done.
ru_RU Localization
We expect Russian localization of this excellent extension against the end of February.
it-IT localisation
I started working on Italian localisation for this extension.
ETA: 1-2 weeks.
Cheers.
Emanuele Forner, Italy
Save batch doesn't work
Hi, and thanks for your extension update.
But, on my system, the "Save batch" function doesn't work. The batch manager still empty, and the file AltSearchScript.txt file still at 0 byte.
I'm using AltSearch 1.1, OOo 2.3.1 Italian, Win XP HE SP2.
Thank you for your attention.
I have manually deleted the
I have manually deleted the old empty AltSearchScript.txt, and now it works properly :-)
Thanks for your good work.
Bug
http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug018vd3.png
Literal translation:
"Syntax error BASIC.
Symbol Replace already been determined."
$ uname -rms ; pkg_info -Ex openoffice
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE i386
ru-openoffice.org-2.3.1
What am I doing wrong?
Hello,
This looks like a great thing, but for some reason, I can't get the batch mode to work. When I try to run a batch, it gives me an error message:
Bt_run: Unknown command: [Find], and the same for all others, i.e. [Replace], [Parameters], etc. It's probably not a mistake I made in writing the batch, since none of the built-in batches work either. The regular method (simply type the find and replace strings in the window) works fine, as does the counter.
Even when I save a command that already worked as a batch, I get the error when the batch is executed, since it makes the batch with the same syntax as used in the others.
Is there some setting that I missed?
By the way, the error disappears when I removed the brackets around the commands in the AltSearchScript file. But when I did that, the batch ran, but didn't actually do anything.
I'm running OOo 2.3.0 on Ubuntu 7.10
-Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I did not test it on Ubuntu
I did not test it on Ubuntu and I cannot do it.
What localisation do you use?
Tomas
My language setting is U.S.
My language setting is U.S. English.
I will try it on Windows to see if it may be a bug in the 2.3 version (the other commenters seem to be using earlier variants).
-Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Great
Hello I just downloaded your extension & tested it.
It works & I love it, really.
Just a note: when I tried to save a search as a batch, I get an error message:
Save option to file: Error opening file:
file:///home/rob/.openoffice.org2/user/config/AltSearchScript.txt
I. O:
Later I checked the file
/home/rob/.openoffice.org2/user/config/AltSearchEditor.ini
and I just had to change from 'notepad' to 'kwrite', and everything went as expected.
Incidentally, I could translate this excellent extension to french.
Thanks
Thanks, I will try to look at it at Linux.
If you want to translate it pleases me but I recommend to wait for the nearest patch. I correct bugs there and it will be better prepared for translation.
Tomas
Good extension
Very good. At first try, I managed to do what I never succeeded to do with the OOo Find&Replace. The replacements are slower than with the native system, but it's quick enough.
Few bugs :
- in "Pick properties" button : the bottom of the text is eroded
- same problem for the "?" button
- when clicking on "?", I get the message "File of Help is impossible to open, etc." though it finds the file and opens it !
- I get two errors messages when I switch to the batch manager
I can give screenshots if you want.
email: trash.noreply{<"at">}gmail.com
I'll answer ;)
Bugs
I cannot help you with eroding buttons. I guess it is a problem with system (memory?).
Problem with opening Help and Batch manager is a bug, produced probably by using of another localization then English or Czech. I will try to fix it to the nearest patch.
Tomas
Bugs
I think that happens because the button is too narrow for same XP themes. See image:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7352/findkz2.png
Best regards, and thanks for your useful extension.
VITRIOL
button erosion
Yes, that the same erosion I have (Windows XP).
Button erosion
I have already understood it. I will fix it in the nearest patch.
Tomas