I have a document in Word 2000 which contains a lot of numbers in the text
(ie not in tables).

The document was written by someone who uses a space as the thousands
separator, instead of a comma. So, for example whereas I would write
"77,777.77", he writes "77 777.77".

This is a problem for various reasons, including that the number can break
across the end of a line. Is there a way of replacing these spaces with
commas globally? I have looked at Search & Replace, but there seems to be no
special character to mean "any single digit".

Brian,

ReplaceMoreUse Wildcards
Find:
([0-9]) ([0-9]{3}[,.])
Replace with
\1\,\2

should work.
--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Brian wrote:
I have a document in Word 2000 which contains a lot of numbers in the
text (ie not in tables).

The document was written by someone who uses a space as the thousands
separator, instead of a comma. So, for example whereas I would write
"77,777.77", he writes "77 777.77".

This is a problem for various reasons, including that the number can
break across the end of a line. Is there a way of replacing these
spaces with commas globally? I have looked at Search & Replace, but
there seems to be no special character to mean "any single digit".

Brian,

Change the comma in the find string I posted to a space. You may have to
run the routine twice to pick up and format large numbers.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Brian wrote:
I have a document in Word 2000 which contains a lot of numbers in the
text (ie not in tables).

The document was written by someone who uses a space as the thousands
separator, instead of a comma. So, for example whereas I would write
"77,777.77", he writes "77 777.77".

This is a problem for various reasons, including that the number can
break across the end of a line. Is there a way of replacing these
spaces with commas globally? I have looked at Search & Replace, but
there seems to be no special character to mean "any single digit".

Greg,

Thanks for your reply. When I try this, I get the message "The Replace With
text contains a group number which is out of range".

Brian


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
...
Brian,

Change the comma in the find string I posted to a space. You may have to
run the routine twice to pick up and format large numbers.

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

Brian wrote:
I have a document in Word 2000 which contains a lot of numbers in the
text (ie not in tables).

The document was written by someone who uses a space as the thousands
separator, instead of a comma. So, for example whereas I would write
"77,777.77", he writes "77 777.77".

This is a problem for various reasons, including that the number can
break across the end of a line. Is there a way of replacing these
spaces with commas globally? I have looked at Search & Replace, but
there seems to be no special character to mean "any single digit".

Brian,

Sorry fo being sloppy,

The Replace with should be

\1,\2

Remove the extra \

Greg,

Word is making 0 replacements with this. I have copied the find and replace
strings I typed he

([0-9]) ([0-9]{3}[ .])

\1,\2



and I'm using it on this file:



77 777.77



77,777.77



I also tried it on the original problem file, with no replacements made.



Brian




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Brian,

Sorry fo being sloppy,

The Replace with should be

\1,\2

Remove the extra \

Brian,

I just copied the find and replace strings that you posted here and
texted with with 77 777.00 and it worked fine.

Do you have ReplaceMoreSearchAll selected?

Try with your cursor at the start of the document.

You might also try wiping any bad karma from the dialog boxes with:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/ClearFind.htm

Greg,

Success! I didn't have "Use wildcards" selected.

Many thanks,
Brian

"Greg" wrote in message
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Brian,

I just copied the find and replace strings that you posted here and
texted with with 77 777.00 and it worked fine.

Do you have ReplaceMoreSearchAll selected?

Try with your cursor at the start of the document.

You might also try wiping any bad karma from the dialog boxes with:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/ClearFind.htm

Doh!!

OK. Glad I could help.