[Solved] Find line breaks/carriage returns

[franklekens]

I've searched the forum for this topic, but haven't been able to find an explanation for how to search a text document for line breaks (or double lines) breaks.

Some people advise using the $ sign or \n, but that doesn't seem to work, either with reg ex turned on or off.

Same goes for page breaks, by the way: how can you search for those?

[franklekens]

Ho stop -- so the $ sign does work. With Reg Ex turned off. Must have done something wrong first time round.

Eh... and page breaks?

[franklekens]

And now once more it doesn't work. What's with this search function?

[franklekens]

Okay, so now it works again. Geeze. And apparently it was with Reg Ex turned ON.
It doesn't exactly help that the extra search options are reset to default for every CTRL+F, and you have to click each time to make them visible.

Also, although I can search for $, I cannot search for $$. Why is that? That's *actually* what I was trying to find -- double line breaks.

[Hagar Delest]

-> [Solved] Find and replace paragraph breaks.

Thanks to add '[Solved]' at beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[franklekens]

I will as soon as I find out how to find double line breaks.

[franklekens]

Well, just to answer my own question again: it seems that ^$ finds me what I want (empty paragraph, the manual calls it; I'm not sure whether that's the same as two line breaks, but it will do).

The Howto http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wik ... _in_Writer was useful.