On 5/16/08 3:55 AM, in article C4539E2F.15013%john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John
McGhie" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hi John,
> 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.
I'll be using Office 2004 student edition awhile longer.
>
> 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. :-)
I didn't sign up for the course. I respect your wishes/policy. :-)
You MVPs are already providing a remarkable service. I repeat saying
that,
or something like it, periodically ... I've just gotten so much help and
problem resolution here that I intend to keep on saying it.
>
> 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.
Got'cha. I was thinking of sending a screenshot in the body of the email.
That means turning on HTML anyway, second op****tunity to get flamed.
>
> So please don't add any screenshots. I don't see any post containing an
> attachment of any kind; and you will get flamed :-)
I hate getting screamed at. Ruins my day.
Regards, Rafael
>
> 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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