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how do i underline all book and journal titles in a long bibliogra
Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a
three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900€“1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900€“1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3€“4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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how do i underline all book and journal titles in a long bibliogra
So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined?
Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the
book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number€“number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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First off, this cannot be done with Find and Replace via the UI.
It *might* be possible with some VBA wrapped around an F&R, It isn't easy to recognise City names which may or may not be present and which may, I suppose, also happen to be in a title. To do this at all there has to be something identifiable which ends the title - a full stop will do but I guess titles could contain them. What about the penultimate full stop in the line? How are 'lines' terminated by the way? Similarly with Journals - you need something which categorically marks the end of the title.Will a Journal Title ever contain a number? Finally, is there any surefire way to differentiate between a book and a journal? The critical questions (from the above) that I see at the moment are identifying the end of the book title - and the end of the 'line' (if each is in a table cell by itself that is fine). -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number-number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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Book Titles always end with a period. But then there are also periods
elsewhere in each entry. The titles themselves don't contain periods other than the final one. Journal Titles will not contain numbers, so the subsequent space and volume number could mark the end of the journal title. I don't think there's a way to differentiate journal from book titles. Some book titles, by the way, end in dates, e.g., The History of Psychiatry, 1832€“1932. Each full book or journal entry with all its publication data takes up one cell in the table. This underlining doesn't have to be a totally perfect method. I'm going to read and edit the whole bibliography after I do the underlining, so I can catch anything that went wrong. I'm just hoping not to have to do too much fixing of things that went wrong. I've never worked with VBA, but if you can give me some simple (?) instructions I can probably manage it. Many thanks! -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: First off, this cannot be done with Find and Replace via the UI. It *might* be possible with some VBA wrapped around an F&R, It isn't easy to recognise City names which may or may not be present and which may, I suppose, also happen to be in a title. To do this at all there has to be something identifiable which ends the title - a full stop will do but I guess titles could contain them. What about the penultimate full stop in the line? How are 'lines' terminated by the way? Similarly with Journals - you need something which categorically marks the end of the title.Will a Journal Title ever contain a number? Finally, is there any surefire way to differentiate between a book and a journal? The critical questions (from the above) that I see at the moment are identifying the end of the book title - and the end of the 'line' (if each is in a table cell by itself that is fine). -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number-number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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Try this - I doubt it's perfect but it should be a start.
I used the Selection so I could see what I was doing - it would be better using a non-Selection Range but if you only want it for one document it's probably not worth the effort to change it. Sub Macro8() Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindAsk .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchByte = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchFuzzy = False .MatchWildcards = True End With While Selection.Find.Execute(FindText:="*. [0-9]{4}. ") ' Should have Author and Year Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 If Selection.Text = """" Then ' This is a Journal - skip quoted string Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveUntil cset:="""", Count:=wdForward ' Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2 Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd ' Should now be at start of Journal Title Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:="0123456789", Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Else ' This is a Book ' Gonna have to go with penultimate period Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=Chr(7), Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 End If Selection.Font.Underline = wdUnderlineSingle Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Wend End Sub See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for help to use the code if you don't know what you are doing. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Book Titles always end with a period. But then there are also periods elsewhere in each entry. The titles themselves don't contain periods other than the final one. Journal Titles will not contain numbers, so the subsequent space and volume number could mark the end of the journal title. I don't think there's a way to differentiate journal from book titles. Some book titles, by the way, end in dates, e.g., The History of Psychiatry, 1832-1932. Each full book or journal entry with all its publication data takes up one cell in the table. This underlining doesn't have to be a totally perfect method. I'm going to read and edit the whole bibliography after I do the underlining, so I can catch anything that went wrong. I'm just hoping not to have to do too much fixing of things that went wrong. I've never worked with VBA, but if you can give me some simple (?) instructions I can probably manage it. Many thanks! -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: First off, this cannot be done with Find and Replace via the UI. It *might* be possible with some VBA wrapped around an F&R, It isn't easy to recognise City names which may or may not be present and which may, I suppose, also happen to be in a title. To do this at all there has to be something identifiable which ends the title - a full stop will do but I guess titles could contain them. What about the penultimate full stop in the line? How are 'lines' terminated by the way? Similarly with Journals - you need something which categorically marks the end of the title.Will a Journal Title ever contain a number? Finally, is there any surefire way to differentiate between a book and a journal? The critical questions (from the above) that I see at the moment are identifying the end of the book title - and the end of the 'line' (if each is in a table cell by itself that is fine). -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number-number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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Well, thank you very much for taking the time to put that together. I don't
have the slightest idea what it means, but I will follow that link and see what I can do. THen I'll let you know. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: Try this - I doubt it's perfect but it should be a start. I used the Selection so I could see what I was doing - it would be better using a non-Selection Range but if you only want it for one document it's probably not worth the effort to change it. Sub Macro8() Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindAsk .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchByte = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchFuzzy = False .MatchWildcards = True End With While Selection.Find.Execute(FindText:="*. [0-9]{4}. ") ' Should have Author and Year Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 If Selection.Text = """" Then ' This is a Journal - skip quoted string Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveUntil cset:="""", Count:=wdForward ' Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2 Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd ' Should now be at start of Journal Title Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:="0123456789", Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Else ' This is a Book ' Gonna have to go with penultimate period Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=Chr(7), Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 End If Selection.Font.Underline = wdUnderlineSingle Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Wend End Sub See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for help to use the code if you don't know what you are doing. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Book Titles always end with a period. But then there are also periods elsewhere in each entry. The titles themselves don't contain periods other than the final one. Journal Titles will not contain numbers, so the subsequent space and volume number could mark the end of the journal title. I don't think there's a way to differentiate journal from book titles. Some book titles, by the way, end in dates, e.g., The History of Psychiatry, 1832-1932. Each full book or journal entry with all its publication data takes up one cell in the table. This underlining doesn't have to be a totally perfect method. I'm going to read and edit the whole bibliography after I do the underlining, so I can catch anything that went wrong. I'm just hoping not to have to do too much fixing of things that went wrong. I've never worked with VBA, but if you can give me some simple (?) instructions I can probably manage it. Many thanks! -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: First off, this cannot be done with Find and Replace via the UI. It *might* be possible with some VBA wrapped around an F&R, It isn't easy to recognise City names which may or may not be present and which may, I suppose, also happen to be in a title. To do this at all there has to be something identifiable which ends the title - a full stop will do but I guess titles could contain them. What about the penultimate full stop in the line? How are 'lines' terminated by the way? Similarly with Journals - you need something which categorically marks the end of the title.Will a Journal Title ever contain a number? Finally, is there any surefire way to differentiate between a book and a journal? The critical questions (from the above) that I see at the moment are identifying the end of the book title - and the end of the 'line' (if each is in a table cell by itself that is fine). -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number-number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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OK, I've tried your code and when I try to run it I get "Compile Error: Sub
or Function not defined." Any ideas? Many thanks. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: Try this - I doubt it's perfect but it should be a start. I used the Selection so I could see what I was doing - it would be better using a non-Selection Range but if you only want it for one document it's probably not worth the effort to change it. Sub Macro8() Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindAsk .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchByte = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchFuzzy = False .MatchWildcards = True End With While Selection.Find.Execute(FindText:="*. [0-9]{4}. ") ' Should have Author and Year Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 If Selection.Text = """" Then ' This is a Journal - skip quoted string Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveUntil cset:="""", Count:=wdForward ' Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2 Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd ' Should now be at start of Journal Title Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:="0123456789", Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Else ' This is a Book ' Gonna have to go with penultimate period Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=Chr(7), Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 End If Selection.Font.Underline = wdUnderlineSingle Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Wend End Sub See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for help to use the code if you don't know what you are doing. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Book Titles always end with a period. But then there are also periods elsewhere in each entry. The titles themselves don't contain periods other than the final one. Journal Titles will not contain numbers, so the subsequent space and volume number could mark the end of the journal title. I don't think there's a way to differentiate journal from book titles. Some book titles, by the way, end in dates, e.g., The History of Psychiatry, 1832-1932. Each full book or journal entry with all its publication data takes up one cell in the table. This underlining doesn't have to be a totally perfect method. I'm going to read and edit the whole bibliography after I do the underlining, so I can catch anything that went wrong. I'm just hoping not to have to do too much fixing of things that went wrong. I've never worked with VBA, but if you can give me some simple (?) instructions I can probably manage it. Many thanks! -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: First off, this cannot be done with Find and Replace via the UI. It *might* be possible with some VBA wrapped around an F&R, It isn't easy to recognise City names which may or may not be present and which may, I suppose, also happen to be in a title. To do this at all there has to be something identifiable which ends the title - a full stop will do but I guess titles could contain them. What about the penultimate full stop in the line? How are 'lines' terminated by the way? Similarly with Journals - you need something which categorically marks the end of the title.Will a Journal Title ever contain a number? Finally, is there any surefire way to differentiate between a book and a journal? The critical questions (from the above) that I see at the moment are identifying the end of the book title - and the end of the 'line' (if each is in a table cell by itself that is fine). -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number-number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |
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Hmm....
What line (or word) is highlighted? I am on Word 2003 and have some odd things enabled so generated code on my machine may well not work on your Word 2000. Any of the lines which start .Match and which give you trouble can be deleted. Most likely these ones .... .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchByte = False .MatchFuzzy = False Delete them all if you like - and post back if you still have problems. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... OK, I've tried your code and when I try to run it I get "Compile Error: Sub or Function not defined." Any ideas? Many thanks. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: Try this - I doubt it's perfect but it should be a start. I used the Selection so I could see what I was doing - it would be better using a non-Selection Range but if you only want it for one document it's probably not worth the effort to change it. Sub Macro8() Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Replacement.Text = "" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindAsk .Format = False .MatchCase = False .MatchWholeWord = False .MatchKashida = False .MatchDiacritics = False .MatchAlefHamza = False .MatchControl = False .MatchByte = False .MatchAllWordForms = False .MatchSoundsLike = False .MatchFuzzy = False .MatchWildcards = True End With While Selection.Find.Execute(FindText:="*. [0-9]{4}. ") ' Should have Author and Year Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 If Selection.Text = """" Then ' This is a Journal - skip quoted string Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveUntil cset:="""", Count:=wdForward ' Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=2 Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd ' Should now be at start of Journal Title Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:="0123456789", Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Else ' This is a Book ' Gonna have to go with penultimate period Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=Chr(7), Count:=wdForward Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 Selection.MoveEndUntil cset:=".", Count:=wdBackward Selection.MoveEnd Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=-1 End If Selection.Font.Underline = wdUnderlineSingle Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd Wend End Sub See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for help to use the code if you don't know what you are doing. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Book Titles always end with a period. But then there are also periods elsewhere in each entry. The titles themselves don't contain periods other than the final one. Journal Titles will not contain numbers, so the subsequent space and volume number could mark the end of the journal title. I don't think there's a way to differentiate journal from book titles. Some book titles, by the way, end in dates, e.g., The History of Psychiatry, 1832-1932. Each full book or journal entry with all its publication data takes up one cell in the table. This underlining doesn't have to be a totally perfect method. I'm going to read and edit the whole bibliography after I do the underlining, so I can catch anything that went wrong. I'm just hoping not to have to do too much fixing of things that went wrong. I've never worked with VBA, but if you can give me some simple (?) instructions I can probably manage it. Many thanks! -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: First off, this cannot be done with Find and Replace via the UI. It *might* be possible with some VBA wrapped around an F&R, It isn't easy to recognise City names which may or may not be present and which may, I suppose, also happen to be in a title. To do this at all there has to be something identifiable which ends the title - a full stop will do but I guess titles could contain them. What about the penultimate full stop in the line? How are 'lines' terminated by the way? Similarly with Journals - you need something which categorically marks the end of the title.Will a Journal Title ever contain a number? Finally, is there any surefire way to differentiate between a book and a journal? The critical questions (from the above) that I see at the moment are identifying the end of the book title - and the end of the 'line' (if each is in a table cell by itself that is fine). -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. Book entries go like this (I want to underline the book title): Last name, First name. Year. Book Title Which May or May Not Contain Numbers But Does Not Contain Quote Marks. City and Sometimes State or Country. Journal entries go like this (I want to underline the journal title): Last name, First name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title number (month): number-number. How can I do this using wildcards? Or is there an easier method? Much appreciated. -- The Monk "Tony Jollans" wrote: So, in English, how would you state what has to be underlined? Your entries seem to start with a Author Name (which may include periods) followed by a period. Followed by a space and a year and a period and a space. ... then ... In your first example, the rest of the line / paragraph / cell is the title, but In your second example it seems (to me) to be an arbitrary part of the following text. -- Enjoy, Tony "Abbey of Farfa" wrote in message ... Hi. I'm using Word 2000. I have a bibliography in the third column of a three-column table that is 90 pages long. How do I underline all book and journal titles in the bibliography without doing each one by hand? I've tried using my limited knowledge of wildcards, to no avail. In general, a book entry looks like this: Gammell, R. H. Ives. 1986. The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. Orleans, Mass. I want to underline The Boston Painters, 1900-1930. (including the final period) In general, a journal entry looks like this: Frankfurter, Alfred M. 1931. "Thirty-Five Portraits from American Collections." Art News Annual 29 (May 16): 3-4. I want to underline Art News Annual. Any help much appreciated. -- The Monk |