[Graham Mayor]

Replace will only work on fields when the field codes are showing and you
need to include REF or it will access *all* fields in your document, which
may not be desirable.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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grammatim wrote:
Only if Field Codes are Showing. Why should that be? (And then it
doesn't need REF.)

On Jan 2, 2:24 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
You said originally that you wanted to change the format of the
numbering? If you don't want to do that, then ^d REF will find all
the cross reference fields.

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grammatim wrote:
I don't want to replace anything, I just want to be able to go back
and see how I dealt with particular kinds of x-refs many pages
earlier -- that is, I just want to be able to find them without
scrolling through dozens of pages and maybe missing them because
there's nothing distinctive about them on the screen.

On Jan 1, 10:20 am, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:
The page on my web site is relevant to all versions, including
2007? ^d REF will find REF fields, but how is that going to help
you, if you don't know the cross reference code to replace it
with? ^d does not work in a wildcard search.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org


grammatim wrote:
Thank you -- there's information there that doesn't seem to be
available anywhere else. _But_ -- it's Word2000-oriented. Is it
all still valid in Word2003? (I don't even ask about 2007, which
from the queries here doesn't appear to be at all an improvement.)

If References are Fields, howcome searching ^d doesn't find them?

On Jan 1, 2:58 am, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:
Take a look athttp://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

Cross references to numbered items use ref fields in a manner
similar to the following, using an internally generated bookmark
eg { REF _Ref186943993 \r \h }

While you can run the replace function on displayed fields, I
don't see any easy way of modifying that construction to give
the correct result?

You mentioned that you were detaching the hyperlink, which does
pose a way forward. If you convert all the fields to text (CTRL+A
then CTRL+SHIFT+F9) you can use replace normally on the resulting
text. eg to change (\([0-9]{1,3})(\))([a-z])
to
\1\3\2

if there are a-bs etc to find then do those first
(\([0-9]{1,3})(\))([a-z]-[b-z])
to
\1\3\2

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org


grammatim wrote:
Is there a secret wild card character for "Cross-Reference"?
(It's not in the list of Special things in the Find-Replace
dialog. As you know if you've been following my saga, I will
have hundreds of cross- references in the form "(123)a" that
will have to be changed to "(123a)" at the last moment after
they've been decoupled from their hyperlinks; but there are a
few like "(123)a-b" that will have to change to "(123a-b)".

I can do the former by simply Find-Replacing )a , )b , )c , and
)d with a) , b) , c) , and d) , but there are likely to be other
examples of )- here and there, so I can't just search for them
automatically.

And Jay just mentioned a super-secret wild card " \1 " that
refers to unspecified text found by Find! Is that correct?
Backslash and not caret? And howcome I've never found this
mentioned anywhere? It could have been quite useful over the
years!

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