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Christianus
Asked: 2018-07-16 05:43:34 +0800 CST

Is it possible to show all found results together in the LibreOffice Writer?

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In MS Word you can Ctrl+F to search a typographical object (sign(s), letter(s), word(s)). A full list of the results is displayed in the left pane (search-engine style: enumerated, with context, and location [page]), so you can have the full picture of a given search in your document without the need to flip pages. Is this possible to display a similar list of the results in the Libre Office Writer? Being forced to look for the highlighted results through pages again is very unhandy in the large documents.

I have LibreOffice v.: 5.3.7.2, build ID: 1:5.3.7~rc2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~lo0
I have not found the answer in the LibreOffice's wiki.

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  1. Best Answer

    With AltSearch, it is possible to redirect search results to another Writer window. The following replacement expression lists item and page number found, as well as the text.

    \i page \I:  &\n\R

    Be sure to check the Regular expressions box for this to work.

    For example, searching for .*a.* in my test document produced four search results.

    1 page 1:  bbabb 
2 page 2:  ccacc 
3 page 2:  ddadd 
4 page 3:  eeaee

    Then consider lining up the two windows side by side to conveniently browse results.

    EDIT:

    To open the AltSearch dialog, go to Edit -> Alt. Find & Replace...

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