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Large text which repeats more than 500 times in a document - how can I delete it?
Hi all, I have a Word 365 document - 1170 pages, where I have one and the same text repeating more than 500 times. This repetitive text contains several paragraphs and a table and I want to remove i...
Hi Charles, thank you for your answer.
I tried your suggestion, but the Replace_All button is not active. I attach a screenshot for you to see this and the text that I would like to delete.
Hi SDj1,
One possible solution would be to first use Ctrl + H to replace the beginning of the text to be deleted with a unique marker (e.g., ## or “start of text”). In a second step, the end of the text to be deleted would also be replaced with a unique string (e.g., ++ or “end of text”).
Finally, in a third step, you can use Ctrl + H (by using wildcards) to remove content between ## and ++.
Lisa