[Graham Mayor]

The @ symbol has a special meaning in Wildcard searches, and you have to use
an escape character - here '\' whenever such a special character is used.
The search string
[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}
if pasted from here, works with English versions of Word. With other
languages you may have to change the escape character '\' for whatever is
appropriate for your language version. Check the help for Wildcard
replacements in your copy of Word and see what that character is - then
replace the three instances of '\' with that character.


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



wrote:
I found what the use wildcards option is and I checked it but when I
check it and then I enter for example the "@" than word says it cannot
search for this.
I can only search for "@" without the box checked.


Suzanne S. Barnhill ha scritto:

That's perhaps because you haven't checked the box for "Use
wildcards." I don't know what it would be in Italian, but in my
English version of Word, it is the third of five check boxes for
"Search Options," following "Match case" and "Find whole words only"
and preceding "Sounds like (English)" and "Find all word forms
(English." If this is an Italian version, those last two may well
not appear.

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wrote in message
ps.com...
I tried doing like you told me but the only thing I copied and
pasted were the "@" or ".com" but no the rest of the e-mail address.
How do I can do to copy/past all the e-mail addresses?
Thanks

Suzanne S. Barnhill ha scritto:

Graham has given you a wildcard search term that will find all the
email addresses. Did you try the solution he gave you?

1. Use Ctrl+C to copy the search term below:

[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}

2. Use Ctrl+V to paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find
dialog.

3. Click More to display the rest of the dialog; check the boxes
for "Use wildcards" and "Highlight all items found."

4. Find All.

5. Click on the title bar of the document to return the focus to
the document.

6. Press Ctrl+C to copy all the highlighted email addresses.

7. Open a new document and Paste.
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wrote in message
ups.com...
How do I do without knowing the e-mail addresses? There are
hundreds of e-mail addresses. The only thing they have in commun
is the "@". How do I do?
Thanks

Graham Mayor ha scritto:

The search tool will work fine for this. Use the find routine
(CTRL+F) to find

[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}

with the wildcards box and the highlight all found entries box
checked. The e-mail addresses will be highlighted.
Close the find dialog. Then copy to the clipboard.
Open a new document and paste.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


wrote:
Hello,
I'm in trouble because I'm trying to find the way to extract
some e-mail addresses that are in a .doc document I have that I
also have in txt format or .htm format
The word document is several pages and he has a lot of e-mail
addresses that I cannot just copy and past with the search tool
because they are too much.
How do I do to extract all the email addresses from the word
document? Thanks!