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Wildcard replacement of characters and style

by SGFucyBM » Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:32:05 GMT

I am trying tthis with wildcards checked in Word 2000:

Find:  (&?) 
Style: tw4winInternal

Replace: /1
Style: Plain text

I find &F, &C etc without problems, but when I click Replace (or Replace 
all), the style tw4winInternal is not replaced by Plain Text.

Am I doing something wrong?  What can I do?

Hans L

Re: Wildcard replacement of characters and style

by Herb Tyson [MVP] » Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:57:52 GMT

Try this, instead:

Find what:&^?
Style:tw4winInternal

Replace with:[leave empty]
Style: Plain text

Use wildcards: OFF

-- 
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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Re: Wildcard replacement of characters and style

by SGFucyBM » Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:28:01 GMT

Herb, thanks.  However, it seems as if tw4winInternal is locked.  I have 
tried to highlight and change in the style window, but it does not work 
either.

Hans L

Re: Wildcard replacement of characters and style

by SGFucyBM » Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:56:06 GMT

Hello again, Herb.

I had to do one change to your suggested method:

 Find what:&^?
Style:tw4winInternal
 
Replace with:[leave empty]
Style: Default Paragraph Font (instead of Plain Test)

Then it worked (someone told me about this in a discussion list).

Hans L

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