Hi Rafael:
At this stage, I need to direct you to search the Word help for the word
"wildcards" and read both articles that appear, carefully and fully.
These topics describe the simplified version of Regular Expressions that
Word's Find/Replace implements.
If you know RegEx, you will be right at home. If not, you need to study
it
very carefully, and experiment.
It helps greatly to have a very accurate and definitive "problem
statement"
before you start. Remember that you are programming a computer when you
do
this. For example, the problem statement in your question cannot be
satisfied -- it is the RegEx equivalent of a "divide by zero" error. If
you
managed to code it, the fine would find the entire content of the
do***ent.
The wild card ^? matches any single character, but only ONE character in
the
indicated position. Contrast this with * , which matches "any number of
characters" in the indicated position.
Cheers
On 13/05/08 5:20 AM, in article C44DE68F.7726%rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> OS 10.4.11
> Ibook G4
> 1.5 GB Ram
> Word 2004
>
> Hi,
>
> In Find and Replace, how do I find *any* word, character, digit, or
> combination of any of those? I see that for "Any Character", the code
is
> ^?, but I can't figure out how that works.
>
> Thanks, Rafael
>
> PS. Would all of us please leave the entire string of posts on each
email?
>
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