Removing marked text

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	''This macro was written by Matteo Cavalleri and suggested at the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2040&highlight= NeoOffice forums] by Fabrizio Venerandi''		''This macro was written by Matteo Cavalleri and suggested at the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2040&highlight= NeoOffice forums] by Fabrizio Venerandi''

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Revision as of 21:46, 28 November 2005

NeoOffice has powerful search and replace functions, but removing various section of marked ([bracketed] text, for instance) cannot be done with the basic functions.

You could use the following macro for this:

sub seekanddestroy4
dim seek
seek = thiscomponent.createReplaceDescriptor()
seek.SearchString = "\[[^\[\]]+\]"
seek.ReplaceString = ""
seek.SearchRegularExpression=True
thiscomponent.ReplaceAll(seek)
end sub

The macro will seek all sections of text in brackets [like a suggestion for different text] and replace these with an empty string [no characters].

This macro was written by Matteo Cavalleri and suggested at the NeoOffice forums by Fabrizio Venerandi