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word - color replacement of all first characters
ggre1335 Starting with your original file:
- Access the Find and Replace dialog and click on More and then on Format>Font and select Automatic from the Font color dropdown in Find Font dialog
- In the Find what control, insert ^$
- In the Replace with control, insert ^& followed by a space
- Click on Replace All
- In the Find what control, insert a space followd by ^$
- In the Replace with control, insert ^p
- Click on Replace All
- Check the Use wildcards box
- In the Find what control, insert ^13{1,}
- In the Replace with control, insert ^p
- Click on Replace All
- Uncheck the Use wildcards box
- In the Find what control, insert ^w
- Leave the Replace with control empty
- Click on Replace All
- In the Find what control, insert ^p
- Leave the Replace with control empty
- Click on Replace All
- There is no "sort of overlay" facility.
You could try copying the "pattern" from the "Letters run-on" and pasting it into the Find what control when you do a search in the original document. There was no hidden text in the document that you provided. However, in the Find and Replace dialog, if you click on More and then on Format>Font and clear the box for Hidden
hidden text will be ignored by the Find and Replace routine
- OK. Looks like I missed the subject of hiding text. That's ok when you print. It won't show up. But, in the edited doc where it does show up, I want searching turned off for the hidden text.
Again, thanks fors all the help. Works great.
Next question.
With all the letters run-on, I can do searches on any given pattern. Yet I cannot locate where in the original text it came from.
So, Is there a way to have some sort of overlay that I can put notes that will not affect searches from these run-on letters.
To complicate things more, If there is a way to do this , can I then search in this overlay.
- ^p will find, or insert a paragraph break
When performing a Wildcard search, you must use ^13 instead of ^p to find a paragraph break. The {1,} tells Word to find one or more instances of the symbol before it. Hence ^13{1,} is used to find one or more consecutive paragraph breaks.
^w is used to find a space.that is white space between characters
To learn more, click on Special and see what is inserted for each of the items in the list. Their is a separate list for a Wildcard search. Thank you very much. worked great.
A few more questions on your steps
In the Replace with control, insert ^p
What is ^p.
In the Find what control, insert ^13{1,}
What is ^13{1,}
In the Find what control, insert ^w
What is ^w
- I have modified steps 2 and 5 to replace ^S with ^$
I would have thought that you could have tried that yourself. thank you for your response. If you look at your step by step instructions step 1 says
- In the Find what control, insert ^S -- that's not an S in your latest response. It is supposed to be the pull-down for any char. which looks like a $. not an S.
- I tried to follow the succeeding steps. I would need you to show me an image of what each pull-down looks like . Just like you did in your latest response
- Really appreciate all the help
Having a problem following your steps
step 2 In the Find what control, insert ^S
is that a caret S or special character followed by a S
special char S is not a valid char for find what box
i'll take it one step at at a time
when I resolve this
I'll reply