You hade replied to the post so I assumed you had seen it? The text content
was:
Take a look at
http://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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www.gmayor.com
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http://word.mvps.org
grammatim wrote:
In whch thread? or, do you have a message-ID?
On Jan 3, 1:28 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:
Which is why I explained how to do this in my first reply to you.
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grammatim wrote:
Unless you've come up with a way to get a "Paragraph number with
full context" to change the punctuation of the numbers, then the
changning of the format can only be done at the very end of
editing, after all possible updates that could change numbers, and
the hyperlinks are detached.
Level 2 reads a.
Level 1 reads (22)
and the cross reference reads (22)a
but it needs to end up (22a)
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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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org
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
My web sitewww.gmayor.com
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
--
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
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