A manual proofread would be the best solution.
It's surprising how many other inconsistencies you'll find when you do that.
Kathy
"Wendy via OfficeKB.com" u14628@uwe wrote in message
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Herb - thanks for your response. I tried your suggestion and it's a nice
solution for many situations, but these documents are instructions which
include a lot of references to buttons. menus, fields and screens, all of
which are capitalized, and many of which are multi-word. Here's an
example:
"Click the Display button. The Display Options dialog box displays "
Note the missing period at the end of the second sentence.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Wendy
Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
For the first question... An additional way to try to find sentences
without
periods would be to look for the following pattern:
[lowercase letter][space(s)][uppercase letter]
...on the theory that capitals that follow lowercases stand a good chance
of
being the first word in a sentence (although, they could as easily be
proper
names).
To do this, in the Find and Replace dialog:
Find what[a-z])( @)([A-Z])
Replace with:\1.\2\3
Make sure Use Wildcards is checked.
The Replace with uses \1 - \3 tokens for the three parenthetical
expressions
in the Find What: field. It then inserts a period at the end of the
orphaned
sentence, then puts in the space(s) and the letter that begins the
following
sentence.
This will find a number of non-sentence breaks. There's also a chance
that
if a sentence should end with a question mark, this particular replace
can
only do one punctuation mark at a time... a period in this instance.
I am reformatting a large number of long documents and have completed
much
of
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Wendy
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