When using advanced find and replace the ^ symbol should restrict searches to the beginning of a paragraph. If I use a specific search e.g. : ^q then this works It doesn't work if I use a broader search e.g. : ^[a-z] This search will find every single letter in a document. Using $ to find the end of a paragraph does still work.
I take it that by "advanced find and replace" you mean find & replace with regular expressions and not the extension by the same name. It seems ^ with grouping finds every letter or number in the paragraph as long as the paragraph starts with the correct type and continues with it. If the type changes mid-paragraph, it will stop finding them. So if I have ^[0-9] and the content: 1111aa111 <- it will not find the 1s that come after aa. 333 <- will find all of those 3s. aa23 <- will not find 2 or 3. This seems to be fixed in master, though, so I'm closing as WFM. I don't have time to install 4.4.3 RC1 right now, but you might want to try it: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit Version: 4.4.2.2 Build ID: 40m0(Build:2) Locale: en_US Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 53d7c88da82f6d16c0c9a45a86a3f9d505764605 TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2015-04-10_02:14:19 Locale: fi_FI
Installed 4.4.3 RC1 and it is indeed fixed. Thanks.