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word - color replacement of all first characters
I would have thought that you could have tried that yourself.
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
- 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.