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Doug, thanks you for the help. However, this search will find the words
EXACTLY 25 characters appart. (It will not find them if they are 20
characters apart.)
"Doug Robbins" wrote:
same[A-z ]{1,25}drink
in a Wildcard Find will find "same" and "drink" with a maximum of 25
characters (including spaces) between them
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"Philos" wrote in message
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I used the following:
same?{1,}drink
Results: it finds these words anywhere in the document.
I read You articel "Finding and replacing characters using wild cards" It
says,
{n,m} finds text containing between "n" and "m" occurrences of the
previous
character or expression; so a{2,3} will find "aa" and "aaa", but only the
first 3 characters in "aaaa" ).
So I used a second number to limit the previous "?" (any character) to
five
times
same?{1,5}drink
Results: it still finds these words anywhere in the document.
What can be done to set a limit of the number of spaces or characters
between the two words in a search?
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
word1?{15,}word2
See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
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Philos wrote:
In earlier versions of Word, I cannot remeber exactly, but there was a
feature in the search (some type of wildcard), where you entered a
number, lets say, 15 and it would find the two words you are
searching for within 15 spaces. Does this help?
"CyberTaz" wrote:
You might be able to do it with wildcards, such as :
.. *word1*word2*.
Starting with the period followed by a space and ending with a
period to indicate that the string be within a sentence. Haven't
tested it, but it ought to work.
Good Luck |:)
On 8/28/05 4:55 PM, in article
, "Philos"
wrote:
This is like a Boolean search; like you search in Google. You
search for two or three words and finds documents with those words,
anywhere in the document. However, in this case, in Word 2003, I am
searching for two words in ONE SENTENCE, anywhere in the sentence.
If I am not mistaken this feature was available in earlier editions
of Word. Any solutions?
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