Description: Find and replace function is impossible to figure out Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ctl+h 2.attempt to replace paragraph ("Enter") with Line feed (Shift+Enter) 3. click replace all Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: Until LO 5 there was an "alternative find and replace", this stopped working in v6. in v7 it seems to work sometimes. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-GB Module: TextDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Linux (All) OS is 64bit: yes Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f66a479225b35e9f1fd3621eef7496462088308a CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2021-03-05_09:50:07 Calc: threaded LO is designed for "normal people" who have no tech knowledge, nor are they interested and this feature is totally incomprehensible even to me. Help does not help either. Nor do the instructions if you google. You may think that this is an enhancement. I think most of LO users will differ, after all, one of the quality attributes is "usability", and this is definitely a failure. See Karl Wiegers, Steve McConnell, let alone IEEE/ISO standards
Created attachment 170452 [details] example document To get the poem lines to line up one has to replace each one individually using the keyboard. Why is this a problem? If you copy an paste 1,000's of lines from a PDF, this is a mission.
Just verified that the "Alternative Find & Replace for Writer (AltSearch)" [1] oxt 1.4.2 build extension installs and still functions correctly with LibreOffice 7.1.1 release. But it could use some dev attention. Other than that there is no mechanism in the Find & Replace dialog--RegEx mode--to replace the paragraph ends (found with $ entry) with a replacement string resulting in the carriage return (as from <Shift>+<Enter>). The ask.libreoffice.org resource has multiple threads on the issues. General improvements to LO Find & Replace dialog RegEx handling is bug 38261, including dupe of incorporating the AltSearch extension into LO core (bug 139585). =-ref-= [1] https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38261 ***