Re:Anybody using it? (Score 1)

I have just started using open office on my Mac. So far I have encountered one important problem using wildcards in find and replace with oowriter. Find and replace has a strange problem finding blank lines - in short it can't. For some unaccountable reason 'soft line' breaks (typed with Shift Enter) are found using \n, where end of line characters are found using $. Just to ensure it makes no sense at all if you replace using \n you get a normal LFCR inserted, not a 'soft return'. AFAIK you can't search and replace 'word'LFCR, (just the word gets replaced, not the newline) and of course you can't find 'word'followed by several newlines, let alone replace them. Short of using Java you can't find ASCII characters (or newlines) at all. I find my self needing this functionality a lot to cut down the size of documents, and of course I only discovered this problem recently as I had a deadline to meet. I'm aware of a complex java solution and will have to get to grips with it (yetch).