Hi John,
Thanks. I'll do that.
Searching Word help for łwildcards" brings up five leads. They all seem
pertinant to what I need to know, but you mentioned there being only two
articles. Which two here might you be referring to?
1 Troubleshooting finding & replacing text or formatting
2 Advanced search methods
3 When I use wildcards, Word doesnąt find certain text.
4 When I use wildcards, Word canąt search for certain items.
5.Word doesnąt find the item Iąm searching for.
As for RegEx, I know nothing about it. I did a search in Help. Twenty
items came up, but in opening some at random I didn't see 'RegEx'. In
other
words, in Help, I didn't find a place to study RegEx.
I did a Google search and came up with this page,
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=RegEx&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Do you recommend that I sift through these Google items myself, in which
case do you recommend any particular ones? Do you want to clue me in?
Can
you direct me to a MVP paper on the topic?
Finally, can I send a screenshot in the body of an email to the newsgroup?
I took a screenshot of something I wanted to sent to NG that wouldn't
copy-paste.
Again, Thanks, Rafael :-)
On 5/13/08 4:29 AM, in article C44FB1CE.14CF5%john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John
McGhie" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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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