Hello friends,
I encountered a small problem when working on one of my documents. I
had earlier used the formatting style of <any number><dot> in my
document. Now i need to replace them with <dot><same number>.
eg: 16. to be replaced by .16
The problem is that the number could be any number, just that the dot
should now appear before that number. I have hundreds of such
occurances and it would take me a couple of hours if not more, to
replace each of them individually. Could someone suggest a better way
of doing it globally?
Thanks in advance
Venu
Greg Maxey - 04 Nov 2004 22:58 GMT
Venu,
You could try Edit>Replace>More>Use Wildcards, type:
([0-9]{1,}). in the find what field
and
.\1 in the replace with field.
See: http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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Jay Freedman - 04 Nov 2004 23:03 GMT
Hi Venu,
Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the box for "Use
wildcards".
Copy the expression from the next line of this message and paste it (with
Ctrl+V) into the Find What box:
([0-9]@).
Put the next expression in the Replace With box:
.\1
Click the Replace All button.
For more information, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.

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