Bug 46993 - Append special pattern character to match break page in search and replace dialog (like ^m in MS Word)
Summary: Append special pattern character to match break page in search and replace di...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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: 158011 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Find-Search
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Reported: 2012-03-06 01:07 UTC by KLEIN Stéphane
Modified: 2023-10-31 17:32 UTC (History)
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Description KLEIN Stéphane 2012-03-06 01:07:46 UTC 
Hi,

In MS Word I can search and replace manual break page. The pattern to match manual break page is ^m.

In LibreOffice, I don't have special pattern to match break paragraph, break page…

Regards,
Stephane
Comment 1 vitriol 2012-03-06 01:42:44 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)

> In LibreOffice, I don't have special pattern to match break paragraph, break
> page…

For paragraph break (and many others pattern of chars) you can use regular expressions.
Regular expressions can't be used for page break because of page break is not a character.
Comment 2 KLEIN Stéphane 2012-03-06 02:13:35 UTC 
> For paragraph break (and many others pattern of chars) you can use regular
> expressions.
> Regular expressions can't be used for page break because of page break is not a
> character.

Ok, then it's a new feature to implement.
Comment 3 Heinrich Hartl 2016-06-13 12:56:39 UTC 
find&replace / other options / Text format... / tab (Text Flow)
shows a section Breaks.
That section seems to be inactive and seems to be greyed all the time. I couldn't find a way to use it or anything else to search for page breaks. I suspect that search isn't implemented at all... 
I would appreciate to be able to search for breaks!
Comment 4 m_a_riosv 2023-10-31 17:32:59 UTC 
*** Bug 158011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***