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Moejoe · 05-23-2009, 03:06 AM

I'm working on a few text that use underscores in place of italics - _italic here_ - and I was wondering if anybody knows the find/replace code to use for restoring these back to italics in Openoffice?

In word it's _(*)_ using a wild card and then a clean-up afterwards of the stray _ characters. Using 'regular expressions' in OpenOffice this same methodology just doesn't work. I know I'm doing something wrong, and that the answer is probably very simple.

Thanks in advance.

05-23-2009, 03:06 AM	#1
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Underscore to Italics in OpenOffice I'm working on a few text that use underscores in place of italics - _italic here_ - and I was wondering if anybody knows the find/replace code to use for restoring these back to italics in Openoffice? In word it's _(*)_ using a wild card and then a clean-up afterwards of the stray _ characters. Using 'regular expressions' in OpenOffice this same methodology just doesn't work. I know I'm doing something wrong, and that the answer is probably very simple. Thanks in advance.