On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:56:53 -0400, "David" wrote:
I want to search for all occurrences of "which" in a document that are not
preceeded by prepositions. Is there any way to accurately do this with MS
Word's wildcard search?
Thanks
Not with wildcards -- there is no wildcard for "preposition".
It would be possible to write a macro that finds each occurrence of "which" and
compares the preceding word to a list of all prepositions (such as that in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._prepositions).
What do you want to do after you find an occurrence? Also, does it make any
difference if there is punctuation between the occurrence and the preceding
word? Should the search be case-sensitive? Questions such as these should be
answered before starting to design the macro.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org
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