[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by StephV

Thank you all for the info! I'm definitely taking a lot of notes and will see what I can add/modify to my workflow. I'm definitely giving the clips feature a solid try. Had I realized what it did sooner, it might have been adopted a long, long time ago.
I rarely have the time to sit and just learn so it's a great opportunity for that.

Originally Posted by StephV

I already do use standard Find&Replace a whole lot, but I haven't dabbled in Regex much if at all

Just think of Regular Expressions as "search using patterns".

Instead of individually searching for things like:

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• [...]
• Chapter 100

you can do a single regex search like:

• Chapter \d+
  
  • Find the word "Chapter" followed by "ONE OR MORE OF ANY NUMBER".

These are INCREDIBLY powerful, and can save you SO MUCH TIME once you understand some of the very basics.

For more examples, see:

• 2022: "False paragraph breaks & RegEx"
• 2022: "Regex expression to replace certain spaces with nonbreaking spaces"

and type this into your favorite search engine:

"regular expressions" Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com
"regex" Tex2002ans site:mobileread.com

You'll come across hundreds of topics where I've done a step-by-step breakdown of regexes + gave tons of helpful examples.

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If you want even more, you can search:

"regular expressions" Tex2002ans site:reddit.com/r/libreoffice

That will show you ~100 of my LibreOffice explanations too (these patterns can typically be used in Word too).

Once you learn to "think in patterns", search/replace becomes SO MUCH better.

Here's a few recent examples:

• /r/LibreOffice: "Right Regex expression ?"
  
  • See the Side Note where I explained the basics of regular expressions + basic patterns that might be helpful to search for.
• How to Find All Italics in a Document + Replace with <i>Italics</i>

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Originally Posted by StephV

[...] so I don't think I'll have a lot of time to dedicate on learning beyond Clips this month... )

Spend a little time up front learning how to use the tools more efficiently and you'll save a ton of time in the long-run.

Same with learning Styles in Word/LibreOffice! Spend less than 30 minutes learning Styles, and you'll save yourself hundreds of hours of formatting headaches.

There's so many awesome bells and whistles hidden inside of Sigil/Calibre. Take full advantage of them!

Another one you might like is Sigil's fantastic Reports:

• Tools > Reports (Ctrl+Shift+R)

to see a few awesome tricks with that, see my post in:

• 2022: "A way to find word length of chapters/stories in book?"