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Wildcard search... buggy?
I have some strange search problems.
Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search
pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab):
Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you
try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
Thanks for the suggestions Graham, but it turns out the cause lies elsewhere.
Changes were being tracked in my document, and the line I gave: Plan Completion Date: June 2006 had changes associated with it ("June" had at one time been changed from "March"), so "June" was underlined etc. So apparently, whether the tracking markup is visible or not, change tracking seems to affect wildcard searching. That's bad news. Since my search is part of a macro, I suppose I could accept all changes, run search, store location of result range, and undo the accept. But that just seems expensive. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
Try
Plan Completion Date:^t*^013 This seems to work regardless of the tracked changes provided the line still ends with a paragraph mark..... but I don't have your document to try it on  -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: Thanks for the suggestions Graham, but it turns out the cause lies elsewhere. Changes were being tracked in my document, and the line I gave: Plan Completion Date: June 2006 had changes associated with it ("June" had at one time been changed from "March"), so "June" was underlined etc. So apparently, whether the tracking markup is visible or not, change tracking seems to affect wildcard searching. That's bad news. Since my search is part of a macro, I suppose I could accept all changes, run search, store location of result range, and undo the accept. But that just seems expensive. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
There are issues with Find and Replace and Track Changes.
I think this one may be caused by Balloons - try switching them off if you currently have them on. -- Enjoy, Tony "avcarrie" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions Graham, but it turns out the cause lies elsewhere. Changes were being tracked in my document, and the line I gave: Plan Completion Date: June 2006 had changes associated with it ("June" had at one time been changed from "March"), so "June" was underlined etc. So apparently, whether the tracking markup is visible or not, change tracking seems to affect wildcard searching. That's bad news. Since my search is part of a macro, I suppose I could accept all changes, run search, store location of result range, and undo the accept. But that just seems expensive. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
Thanks, works like a charm! I'm not sure why, but I don't usually use
asterisks in my searches; maybe it's because I didn't know how greedy the search would be (and I was obviously too lazy/uneasy to experiment). "Graham Mayor" wrote: Try Plan Completion Date:^t*^013 This seems to work regardless of the tracked changes provided the line still ends with a paragraph mark..... but I don't have your document to try it on -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: Thanks for the suggestions Graham, but it turns out the cause lies elsewhere. Changes were being tracked in my document, and the line I gave: Plan Completion Date: June 2006 had changes associated with it ("June" had at one time been changed from "March"), so "June" was underlined etc. So apparently, whether the tracking markup is visible or not, change tracking seems to affect wildcard searching. That's bad news. Since my search is part of a macro, I suppose I could accept all changes, run search, store location of result range, and undo the accept. But that just seems expensive. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
Thanks for the tip. Turning off balloons skirts the bug only if markup is
showing. Also valuable to know. "Tony Jollans" wrote: There are issues with Find and Replace and Track Changes. I think this one may be caused by Balloons - try switching them off if you currently have them on. -- Enjoy, Tony "avcarrie" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestions Graham, but it turns out the cause lies elsewhere. Changes were being tracked in my document, and the line I gave: Plan Completion Date: June 2006 had changes associated with it ("June" had at one time been changed from "March"), so "June" was underlined etc. So apparently, whether the tracking markup is visible or not, change tracking seems to affect wildcard searching. That's bad news. Since my search is part of a macro, I suppose I could accept all changes, run search, store location of result range, and undo the accept. But that just seems expensive. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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Wildcard search... buggy?
I too prefer not to use asterisks as they are too blunt an instrument, but
sometimes needs must -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: Thanks, works like a charm! I'm not sure why, but I don't usually use asterisks in my searches; maybe it's because I didn't know how greedy the search would be (and I was obviously too lazy/uneasy to experiment). "Graham Mayor" wrote: Try Plan Completion Date:^t*^013 This seems to work regardless of the tracked changes provided the line still ends with a paragraph mark..... but I don't have your document to try it on -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: Thanks for the suggestions Graham, but it turns out the cause lies elsewhere. Changes were being tracked in my document, and the line I gave: Plan Completion Date: June 2006 had changes associated with it ("June" had at one time been changed from "March"), so "June" was underlined etc. So apparently, whether the tracking markup is visible or not, change tracking seems to affect wildcard searching. That's bad news. Since my search is part of a macro, I suppose I could accept all changes, run search, store location of result range, and undo the accept. But that just seems expensive. Any thoughts? "Graham Mayor" wrote: I cannot reproduce the problem using your examples. May I suggest that you try renaming the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data and clear temp files - http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and then repair Word from the Word Help menu. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: The complete line is (where the whitespace after the colon is a tab): Plan Completion Date: June 2006 "Graham Mayor" wrote: What is the line of text that you think you are looking for with this search pattern? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org avcarrie wrote: I have some strange search problems. Sometimes if I do a wildcard search for text (that I know exists) that includes ^013 (paragraph marker), Word does not tell me that no results were found, yet no result is selected. To try and find the selection/cursor, I hold shift and press an arrow key to extend whatever resulting selection there might be in my doc. If I tried to extend right/down, all text from the search result (inclusive) to end of doc is selected. If I tried up/left there is no selection, and the cursor is at start of doc. e.g., searching for (this pattern exists in doc): Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013 causes this behaviour but (if I add any gibberish after the final ^013)... Plan Completion Date:^t[!^013]@^013sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf causes the same behaviour although the given pattern does not exist in my doc. Has anyone come across such behaviour or am I alone here? My macros become quite useless if I can't rely on simple search/replace. Note that I have all text / formatting / field codes visible. |
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