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I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long
document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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What wildcard search string are you using?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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I'm putting ([*]@) in the Find box with formatting "not bold" and "all
caps"; and in the Replace box \1 formatted as all caps and bold. Thanks for your reply, Suzanne. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What wildcard search string are you using? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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I thought you were searching for words that were already in capitals (typed
using Caps Lock) and formatting them as bold? The search string that you are using searches for *everything.* Shouldn't you be using [A-Z]? See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I'm putting ([*]@) in the Find box with formatting "not bold" and "all caps"; and in the Replace box \1 formatted as all caps and bold. Thanks for your reply, Suzanne. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What wildcard search string are you using? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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Instead, use the Find string
([A-Z]@) and remove the "All caps" formatting, leaving only the "not bold" (which is not strictly necessary but won't hurt). In the Replace box, again remove the "All caps" formatting, leaving only the "bold". The "all caps" formatting is not what you think it is. It's a character formatting that is separate from whether the characters were typed with the Shift or Caps Lock pressed. The underlying characters with All Caps applied may be either upper or lower case, but they will be _displayed_ as upper case. If the characters were typed with Shift or Caps Lock on, but they didn't have the All Caps formatting applied, your search wouldn't find them. Note that a wildcard search is inherently case-sensitive. The expression [A-Z] matches only characters that were typed in upper case -- which, as I said, is a separate issue from the All Caps format. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. alphatango wrote: I'm putting ([*]@) in the Find box with formatting "not bold" and "all caps"; and in the Replace box \1 formatted as all caps and bold. Thanks for your reply, Suzanne. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What wildcard search string are you using? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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Thanks, Suzanne. I thought I was using all capitals in the search but I'll
sure take another look. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I thought you were searching for words that were already in capitals (typed using Caps Lock) and formatting them as bold? The search string that you are using searches for *everything.* Shouldn't you be using [A-Z]? See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I'm putting ([*]@) in the Find box with formatting "not bold" and "all caps"; and in the Replace box \1 formatted as all caps and bold. Thanks for your reply, Suzanne. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What wildcard search string are you using? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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Thanks so very much, Jay. I'm sure that's where my error lies.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: Instead, use the Find string ([A-Z]@) and remove the "All caps" formatting, leaving only the "not bold" (which is not strictly necessary but won't hurt). In the Replace box, again remove the "All caps" formatting, leaving only the "bold". The "all caps" formatting is not what you think it is. It's a character formatting that is separate from whether the characters were typed with the Shift or Caps Lock pressed. The underlying characters with All Caps applied may be either upper or lower case, but they will be _displayed_ as upper case. If the characters were typed with Shift or Caps Lock on, but they didn't have the All Caps formatting applied, your search wouldn't find them. Note that a wildcard search is inherently case-sensitive. The expression [A-Z] matches only characters that were typed in upper case -- which, as I said, is a separate issue from the All Caps format. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. alphatango wrote: I'm putting ([*]@) in the Find box with formatting "not bold" and "all caps"; and in the Replace box \1 formatted as all caps and bold. Thanks for your reply, Suzanne. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What wildcard search string are you using? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "alphatango" wrote in message ... I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? |
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On Jan 17, 11:10 pm, alphatango
wrote: I need to make bold the phrases and words that appear in all caps in a long document. I thought I was doing okay in the find and replace area, but nothing I try works. Could it be that when inputting a document, unless one goes to the Font dialog box and chooses the "all caps" option, caps won't showup in find and replace using wildcards? I tried applying all caps that way and they were found immediately, but in the document at hand, nothing I try finds them. I'm sure they were applied by just holding down the cap lock. Am I overlooking something simple? follow this link and you will see much more options to find & search http://soi12.com/office/story.php?ti..._Find__Replace SoiCom |
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