Thanks for all replies.
I avoided saying what's inside the curly brackets because when the fields
are displayed they tend to be very long. But in the case of the EndNote
citation fields, each one begins with "{ ADDIN EN.CITE EndNoteCite",
followed by lots more stuff, and ending with "/Cite/EndNote}".
Maybe there isn't a way to do wildcard find and replace for fields
generically, and probably not something one would really need, but it would
be handy to be able to use it with EndNote fields, which I frequently work
with.
A kind of workaround for me meanwhile is simply to Find each citation by
jumping from one to the next using Browse by Field on the scrollbar, but it
would save time to be able to Find AND Replace, and I would welcome a
suggestion of code that could do it programatically.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Word itself does not use fields for endnotes.The fields presumably are
inserted via your EndNote software, however quickly checking at Google there
are several EndNote packages, hence Doug's request to learn exactly what
your endnote software inserts that you wish to find. It is simple enough to
locate fields using vba, provided you know what the field construction is.
What exactly appears between the curly brackets {}?
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"David Newmarch" wrote in message
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Thanks for picking this up.
EndNote bibliographical software, through the EndNote add-in for Word,
inserts in-text bibliographical citations in a Word document as fields.
I'm not concerned at this stage with modifying any fields, Switching to a
different bibliographical style (not to be confused with Word's formatting
styles) is a procedure that EndNote takes care without any difficulty. My
problem is just with finding the fields so that I can delete the
now-extraneous space (in the ordinary Word text, not the field) that in
most
instances exists immediately before the point where the field has been
inserted. In other words I want to bring these fields up against the
preceding text - where previously they were inserted with a space between
them and the preceding text.
But Word doesn't let me find ANY fields using wildcards. There are also
other fields in the document, like hyperlinks and a table of Contents, and
when Use Wildcards is checked ^d doesn't find them either. (Without
Wildcards, ^d finds all of them.)
When the field codes are displayed, all of them (the citation entries and
the hyperlinks and what have you) are enclosed in the usual curly
brackets. I
also tried just searching for spaces before curly brackets, but Field Code
brackets don't seem to be findable with Find and replace.
Does this information help?
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
I am not sure what you mean by EndNote citation fields. If you use
Alt+F9
to toggle on the display of field codes in the Word document, what do you
see in place of the fields that you want to modify?
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Hope this helps.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"David Newmarch" wrote in
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In Word 2007 I'm editing a paper which contains EndNote citation
fields,
and
in the course of switching the paper to a different bibliographic style
I
need to find and replace any space that occurs before a citation. Each
citation exists in the document as a field in Word.
With field codes toggled on, when I do a simple Find for ^d Word finds
each
field with no trouble, but when I switch on "Use wildcards" and try the
syntax
Find: ( )(^d) - and I have also tried ( )([^d])
I get an error message saying that ^d is not supported when the
Wildcards
check box is selected.
Can anyone help me with Find and replace syntax that will work for this
task?
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