Hi Rafael:
Yes, I am talking about Word's "online help". Office 2008 help is almost
entirely online. Only the simplistic "Getting started" topics are
actually
contained in the application.
This is new in Office 2008. Unless you allow the help system to go online
to get the content, you will see almost nothing. Most topics will be
missing. The idea is to allow Microsoft to dynamically update the help.
When you access the help online, they can track which topics users are
requesting. If they get 100 requests for "Regular Expressions", they will
assign an author to write the topic and it will magically appear.
In fact, the Author has already been assigned, and he tries to look in
here
when he gets time, to see what people are asking about. And since I have
his email address, I mercilessly pepper the poor fellow with requests :-)
The Help>Send Feedback command ends up in the same group. Any feedback
that
is not simply abusive is likely to result in a help topic being added.
When *I* Googled "regex" I got 6.9 million articles returned. Any of the
top ten will get you started. I am sorry, but there needs to be a limit to
how much work it is fair and reasonable to ask the MVPs to do for you. At
University, you would spend a couple of semesters learning Regular
Expressions as part of a computer science degree. I do not think it is
reasonable to ask us to post the content of that course here. :-)
Depending on "how" you send the screenshot, yes it is "possible" to send a
screenshot to a newsgroup. However, I strongly suggest that you do not do
that here! 1) You WILL get screamed at by the Thought Police and the
'Net
Nazis. The crescendo will be deafening. 2) Most people who spend a lot
of
time in these groups routinely block any post with an attachment. This
prevents the silly little children who think we work for Microsoft from
sending us a copy of their latest virus.
So please don't add any screenshots. I don't see any post containing an
attachment of any kind; and you will get flamed :-)
Cheers
On 16/05/08 8:30 AM, in article C4520EA6.7D09%rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi John.
>
> OK. All five.
>
> Are you naming Word Help "online help" below? I think Word Help is
within
> the Word program, and not something that's accessed online, on the web.
>
> As I understand it, There are four sources for help with the Mac
programs I
> use:
> The application's Help.
> Newsgroup correspondence (as we're doing here).
> MVP publications online.
> Apple help topics.
>
> Also, would you please give me a lead to an explanation of RegEx. In my
> post below, in the three paragraphs starting at:
>>> As for RegEx, I know nothing about it. I...
> three leads: a google search for RegEx and what I found in Word under
RegEx,
> none of which topics contained the word RegEx.
>
> Finally, is it possible to send a screenshot in a post to a newsgroup?
>
> Thanks much, Rafael
>
>
> On 5/15/08 3:24 AM, in article C4524558.14ED3%john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John
> McGhie" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rafael:
>>
>> All five. Three of them were not there when I looked :-)
>>
>> The online help is currently expanding quite quickly, as a result of
user
>> requests.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> On 14/05/08 11:43 AM, in article C44F98E1.7B2D%rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rafael
>> Montserrat" <rmnospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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