[gr8fuldave]

Hi Folks,

Hello! The solution [a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,} worked great for me when extracting several hundred e-mail addresses from a document.

I am faced with another similar challenge. I have a document that has a multitude of the following:
*lastname,firstname throughout the text (with real last and first names of clients.)

The asterisk is attached to each name.

I need to highlight and copy all the above from the document.

what is the formula to search and highlight *firstname,lastname?

Thanks!

[Lisa Wilke-Thissen]

Hi,

[unknown Word version]

I need to highlight and copy all the above from the document.
what is the formula to search and highlight *firstname,lastname?

lastname is followed by what - manual line break, paragrah, more text?

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Cheers,

Lisa

[gr8fuldave]

Hi Lisa,
This is an exact cut paste from the document:

*Fischer Jr, William O

there are a couple thousand of these I need to extract. I got pretty close and was able to highlight the *lastname, using the following:\*[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}...I can't seem to get it to capture the Jr, William O etc.

Originally Posted by Lisa Wilke-Thissen

Hi,

[unknown Word version]

I need to highlight and copy all the above from the document.
what is the formula to search and highlight *firstname,lastname?

lastname is followed by what - manual line break, paragrah, more text?

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Cheers,

Lisa

[Lisa Wilke-Thissen]

Hi,

This is an exact cut paste from the document:
*Fischer Jr, William O

there are a couple thousand of these I need to extract.
I got pretty close and was able to highlight the *lastname,
using the following:\*[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}...
I can't seem to get it to capture the Jr, William O etc.

but you need to know, what is following the firstname. Where has Word to
stop highlighting? Is it a full stop, is it a paragraph mark, is it a manual
line break, is it a colon?

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Cheers,
Lisa

[gr8fuldave]

Hi Lisa,
I really can't tell. i looked at the document in every view type, and it just doesn't show it. I originally received it as .pdf, and converted it to .docx. If you must know, i am trying to extract e-mail address and name for an e-mail campaign for my company. All legitimate, but I can't seem to cull the specific information.

I would be happy to send you a page for research if you think you can help. I'm stumped.

but you need to know, what is following the firstname. Where has Word to
stop highlighting? Is it a full stop, is it a paragraph mark, is it a manual
line break, is it a colon?

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Cheers,
Lisa[/quote]

[Lisa Wilke-Thissen]

Hi,

I really can't tell. i looked at the document in
every view type, and it just doesn't show it.

but you do know, how to show all formatting marks in a Word document?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...010102250.aspx

I would be happy to send you a page for research
if you think you can help.

I think to get the document would help, but it is not necessary. We just
need the information about the systematic:
Where has Word to stop highlighting? Is it a full stop, is it a paragraph
mark, is it a manual line break, is it a colon?
Where does the firstname end?

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Cheers,
Lisa