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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / December 2003Search & Replace Pattern Matching
I would like to search and replace a single quote (') that occurs on every line of my document. How do I pattern match that? I tried "^'" (without the double quotes) in the Search field...but, it finds nothing!?!?! Thanks in advance!!! > I would like to search and replace a single quote (') that > occurs on every line of my document. How do I pattern > match that? I tried "^'" (without the double quotes) in > the Search field...but, it finds nothing!?!?! Thanks in > advance!!! Hello. Try the find box and right your "'" and in the replace box, right nothing. Good luck and happy holidays. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm Note that it will be all too simple to remove wanted single quotes as well as the unwanted ones, if you are not clear with your search pattern. I would need more information about this single quote and where it occurs to give you a more definite answer.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > I would like to search and replace a single quote (') that > occurs on every line of my document. How do I pattern > match that? I tried "^'" (without the double quotes) in > the Search field...but, it finds nothing!?!?! Thanks in > advance!!! I'm sorry, I wrote this when it was late at night and I didn't specify this too clear. I want to replace a single quote that occurs at the BEGINNING of every line. I tried "^'", but I couldn't get it to work. Thanks again...sorry for the confusion. >-----Original Message----- >See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >. Highlight the desired character; copy it; open your Find/Replace Window -- use the CONTROL + V option to paste the character to the Find location. Enter what you wish to replace it with (or leave bland for nothing) in the Replace location.... That should do the trick! Kate in MN > I'm sorry, I wrote this when it was late at night and I > didn't specify this too clear. I want to replace a single [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > >. Try searching for: ^p' -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I'm sorry, I wrote this when it was late at night and I > didn't specify this too clear. I want to replace a single [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > > >. See Suzanne's reply which will find all but the one on the first line - and note this is not a wildcard search. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > I'm sorry, I wrote this when it was late at night and I > didn't specify this too clear. I want to replace a single [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> >> . Jason Maybe you are looking at this the wrong way. Did you know that if you hold down the ALT key, you can make in vertical selection of a document? For your example, place the cursor at the top most point in the margin where the first ' mark occurs. Hold down the ALT key and drag the cursor across one ' and then down to the final '. You should no have a vertical selection of all the ' characters, so now press delete. SignatureTerry Farrell - Word MVP http://www.mvps.org/word/ I'm sorry, I wrote this when it was late at night and I didn't specify this too clear. I want to replace a single quote that occurs at the BEGINNING of every line. I tried "^'", but I couldn't get it to work. Thanks again...sorry for the confusion. >-----Original Message----- >See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm >Note that it will be all too simple to remove wanted single quotes as well >as the unwanted ones, if you are not clear with your search pattern. I >would need more information about this single quote and where it occurs to >give you a more definite answer. > >> I would like to search and replace a single quote (') that >> occurs on every line of my document. How do I pattern >> match that? I tried "^'" (without the double quotes) in >> the Search field...but, it finds nothing!?!?! Thanks in >> advance!!! > >. I actually want to replace all the ' with some other text. I tried using Suzanne's suggestion, but it removes all the paragraphs as well. Is there a way to use her search and only replace the ' and not the entire ^p'?? Thanks all. >-----Original Message----- >Jason [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > >. I should have said, search for ^p' and replace with ^p. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I actually want to replace all the ' with some other text. > I tried using Suzanne's suggestion, but it removes all the [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > > > >. |
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