I wouldn't know what to ask for. A single macro including all the
possibilities is not practical (the replacement requirements are varied*)
and a separate macro for each possibility would be more trouble than it's
worth. Short of recoding the entire F&R feature, I don't see this being
really very helpful.
*For the project I'm currently working on, they include:
Multiple spaces with single space
Multiple paragraph marks with single paragraph mark
Tab character with nothing
Space + paragraph mark with paragraph mark
Paragraph mark + space with paragraph mark
Space + en dash (or hyphen) + space with em dash
Probably others that I'm forgetting
No one document will require all of the above, but most will require at
least a couple. The current project is short stories by dozens of writers,
most of whom tend to use Normal style exclusively, press Tab for a
first-line indent, press Enter twice to add space, space twice between
sentences, and invariably leave a lot of stray spaces and empty paragraphs
because they work with nonprinting characters hidden (typically there will
be the better part of a pageful of empty paragraphs at the end of the
document and usually at least one space at the end of every paragraph). And
this doesn't even count the ones that "right-align" copy by pressing Tab
repeatedly or the ones that center titles using the spacebar. sigh
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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You only have to ask 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
As you yourself have pointed out, recorded macros based on Find and
Replace often don't work as expected, and, as I don't write VBA, I'm
not up to editing them.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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I meant that you could store your regular searches as macros
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Still not presuaded to go the vba route then 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Even better would be to have a selection of F&R "profiles" or
something akin to AutoText entries that would be saved between
Word sessions. There are certain combinations I search for
repeatedly (two spaces with one space, ^p^p wit ^p, etc.), and it
would be neat to be able to just say, use F&R combination 1, 2,
3, or whatever.
"mary branscombe" wrote
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Suggestion. When I find and replace, I can go back and choose
something I've looked for, or something I've replaced. Picking
what I looked for from the list doesn't change what I'm
replacing; it would be nice to have an option that says 'replace
with the same text used last time' so that when I pick FindText1
I get ReplaceText1 in the replace box automatically - make it a
checkbox so it's not the default behaviour. when i have a set of
Find/Replace changes to make in several different documents, this
would save time and avoid msitakes.
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