atw: Wildcards in Word for Find/Replace

The following are two excellent articles about using wildcards (regular
expressions) in Find/Replace in Word. Particularly after the recent
discussion on that subject, you might find them useful.
 
The first article is more introductory and includes the table (explaining
wildcard characters) that _used to_ be available from the What's This? help
for the "Use wildcards" option (in Word 97). However, the article goes a lot
further than the help ever did, and gives an example of how to swap the
order of first names and surnames in a list. 
 
"Add power to Word searches with regular expressions" (4 A4 pages)
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=HA010873051033&Origin=
HH010788221033&CTT=5 
(or http://tinyurl.com/5cu6r)
 
The second article (whose URL is only 1 character different from the other
article's) is more involved, and includes a discussion of how to find
duplicate paragraphs or rows.
 
"Putting regular expressions to work in Word" (5 A4 pages)
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=HA010873041033&Origin=
HH010788221033&CTT=5 
(or http://tinyurl.com/47ke3)
 
Hope that helps,
Craig
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