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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / March 2008Find and Replace
Suppose I have a 90 page document crammed full of the following number patterns: 11R1962-72. I need to put these numbers in parentheses wherever they appear in the document. You've taught me so far how to do that successfully--and I thank you! But some of the numbers have a period after the R (i.e., 11R.1962-72). How do I find either of these patterns in one find-and-replace action? I guess the simplest thing would be to find and remove the period, but that's too easy! Thanks more than I can say. This group offers the very best education in Word that I've ever come across. And I thank you! Word does not have a code for (zero or more) or (zero or one) occurrences of a character so you have to work round this a little. What pattern are you using at the moment? If you look for (up to R) (dot or digit) (3 or 4 digits) (hyphen and on) you should find your numbers with the dot, and those without, but also any with a dot and only three digits - if this is problematic, there's probably another way if you give a bit more detail of the strings (or a pointer to earlier threads)  SignatureEnjoy, Tony > Suppose I have a 90 page document crammed full of the following number > patterns: 11R1962-72. I need to put these numbers in parentheses [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Thanks more than I can say. This group offers the very best education in > Word that I've ever come across. And I thank you! Thanks again, Tony, for all of your great help. I hope it will one day be possible to use "0 or more" occurrences of a character. Until then, I'll get by with a little help from you and your group! > Word does not have a code for (zero or more) or (zero or one) occurrences of > a character so you have to work round this a little. What pattern are you [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Thanks more than I can say. This group offers the very best education in > > Word that I've ever come across. And I thank you! |
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