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I have Word 2000. Is there any way to find out if there are any duplicates
of the words or phrases in a Word document, without typing in each one? |
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You can run a macro to find out how many times words appear in a document,
but phrases are a bit more of a problem because it's hard to define exactly what constitutes a phrase. You can however use EditFind, or EditReplace to located multiple instances of a phrase that you enter into the "Find what:" control of the dialog. If you use EditReplace and replace the text with itself, it will tell you how many replacements it has made. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzi" wrote in message ... I have Word 2000. Is there any way to find out if there are any duplicates of the words or phrases in a Word document, without typing in each one? |
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Thank you for the reply. I don't understand how to run a macro or even what
a "macro" is. I'll be specific - I have listed names (in a column) on about 30 pages in Word. I don't want to imput each name in EditFind. I know I can sort the list alphabetically and scan the list with my eyes. I just wanted to know if there is a shortcut to this - where Word would just let me know if there are any duplicates of any words that I typed. "Doug Robbins" wrote: You can run a macro to find out how many times words appear in a document, but phrases are a bit more of a problem because it's hard to define exactly what constitutes a phrase. You can however use EditFind, or EditReplace to located multiple instances of a phrase that you enter into the "Find what:" control of the dialog. If you use EditReplace and replace the text with itself, it will tell you how many replacements it has made. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzi" wrote in message ... I have Word 2000. Is there any way to find out if there are any duplicates of the words or phrases in a Word document, without typing in each one? |
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There's a method given for doing this in the article "Finding and replacing
characters using wildcards" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzi" wrote in message ... Thank you for the reply. I don't understand how to run a macro or even what a "macro" is. I'll be specific - I have listed names (in a column) on about 30 pages in Word. I don't want to imput each name in EditFind. I know I can sort the list alphabetically and scan the list with my eyes. I just wanted to know if there is a shortcut to this - where Word would just let me know if there are any duplicates of any words that I typed. "Doug Robbins" wrote: You can run a macro to find out how many times words appear in a document, but phrases are a bit more of a problem because it's hard to define exactly what constitutes a phrase. You can however use EditFind, or EditReplace to located multiple instances of a phrase that you enter into the "Find what:" control of the dialog. If you use EditReplace and replace the text with itself, it will tell you how many replacements it has made. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzi" wrote in message ... I have Word 2000. Is there any way to find out if there are any duplicates of the words or phrases in a Word document, without typing in each one? |
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Thanks - I will read that. I appreciate your help.
"Doug Robbins" wrote: There's a method given for doing this in the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzi" wrote in message ... Thank you for the reply. I don't understand how to run a macro or even what a "macro" is. I'll be specific - I have listed names (in a column) on about 30 pages in Word. I don't want to imput each name in EditFind. I know I can sort the list alphabetically and scan the list with my eyes. I just wanted to know if there is a shortcut to this - where Word would just let me know if there are any duplicates of any words that I typed. "Doug Robbins" wrote: You can run a macro to find out how many times words appear in a document, but phrases are a bit more of a problem because it's hard to define exactly what constitutes a phrase. You can however use EditFind, or EditReplace to located multiple instances of a phrase that you enter into the "Find what:" control of the dialog. If you use EditReplace and replace the text with itself, it will tell you how many replacements it has made. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzi" wrote in message ... I have Word 2000. Is there any way to find out if there are any duplicates of the words or phrases in a Word document, without typing in each one? |
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