Re: [PCWorks] Find/Replace in MSWord
- From: David Grossman <dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:16:47 +0300
Hello, Harold,
I like Hugh's suggestion of searching with ???. Perhaps you'll want to use
?????, since (if I understood correctly) you also want to replace the <>
brackets in each instance.
Maybe it will work, and maybe not. Mac wildcards may behave differently from
PC wildcards.
Furthermore, Word may treat <> as special or reserved characters (for Less
Than or Greater Than), thus creating additional issues.
I'd like to add an additional step:
Search for .^p?????, and then replace with .^p
My additional procedure asks Word to replace the period from the previous
line, and then to search for the Paragraph symbol (^p) at the end of the
line, and then for the next five characters.
I also have three more bits of advice to add to the sage recommendations of
Hugh and Clint:
1. Save the file before beginning the procedure.
2. Close the file, and then back it up BEFORE trying any suggestion.
3. Don't Save the file until you are happy with the result.
David Grossman
-----Original Message-----
From: pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pcworks-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:28 AM
To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PCWorks] Find/Replace in MSWord
I don't use Word, so if that's possible that's worth getting
it. Harold let us know if that works.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
Well, maybe you can, with wildcards.
Word Help:
"Search by using wildcards
Use wildcards to find and replace
For example, use the asterisk (*) wildcard to search for a
string of
characters ("s*d" finds "sad" and "started").
On the Edit menu, click Find or Replace.
If you don't see the Use wildcards check box, click More.
Select the Use wildcards check box.
Enter a wildcard character in the Find What box. Do one of the
following:
To choose a wildcard character from a list, click Special,
click a
wildcard character, and then type any additional text in the
Find what
box.
Type a wildcard character directly in the Find what box.
If you want to replace the item, enter what you want to use as
a
replacement in the Replace with box.
Click Find Next, Replace, or Replace All"
Try searching for<???>. Be sure to check "Use Wildcards" .
Can't hurt to try and it seems as though it should work.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
<> wrote:
> If they are different you simply cannot. You can't tell a
> program to replace "something" (abc) with something else if
> "something" (abc) is different in each case. Well you can,
> but
> you would have to do it (in your example) 300 times.
> -Clint
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Braunstein Harold & Joan"
>
> Hello again ... using MSWord, part of Office:Mac in an Apple
> system but I think this is an MSWord question.
> 1. Let's say I have a line like this: "XYZ <abc> ... 123"
> 2. Let's say I have 300 lines like the above but each with a
> different initial 3 letters, each with a different <URL> and
> each with a different numeral combination. In other words, I
> have 300 different lines in the "XYZ <abc> ... 123" format.
> 3. Now what I want to do is remove the <abc> (including the
> brackets) from each of the 300 lines (remember that the <abc>
> is different in each case)
> 4. How can this be done using what I think would be the
> Find/Replace feature in MSWord? --- Harold
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