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Lisa Wilke-Thissen Lisa Wilke-Thissen is offline
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Default Extracting specific words from a document

Hi,

Thanks for the tip-each "first name" is followed by a paragraph mark.


the exact format is:
*lastname (including Jr, III, etc), First name(paragraph)


using wildcards, you cannot search for a "paragraph mark". So you have to
use the code ^013.

Find | Find what:
\*(*)^013
[= asterix, 0 or more characters, paragraph mark]
Find in: Main document

Now all occurances of "*...........¶" are selected, and you can copy them.

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Cheers,
Lisa