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Overselection in Word
XP Prof. / Word 2000 SP3.
Find: ^p3 for text: Line 1: ... fling her Line 2: 30 Selection for found text extends from the paragraph mark at the end of line 1 to the zero at the end of line2, instead of only including the 3. Auto select entire word is clear. How can I get the selection I need? |
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The selection is doing what you asked ie find the paragraph mark followed by
the 3. To select just the 3 search for 3; however this will find any 3 in the document. How you find the particular 3 using the Find function rather depends on what you want to do with it having found it. See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm . -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Judy wrote: XP Prof. / Word 2000 SP3. Find: ^p3 for text: Line 1: ... fling her Line 2: 30 Selection for found text extends from the paragraph mark at the end of line 1 to the zero at the end of line2, instead of only including the 3. Auto select entire word is clear. How can I get the selection I need? |
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Hi Judy,
Find: ^p3 will only select: ¶ 30 if the '30' is in a field. Otherwise, it only selects: ¶ 3 -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Judy" wrote in message ... XP Prof. / Word 2000 SP3. Find: ^p3 for text: Line 1: ... fling her Line 2: 30 Selection for found text extends from the paragraph mark at the end of line 1 to the zero at the end of line2, instead of only including the 3. Auto select entire word is clear. How can I get the selection I need? |
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On Jul 19, 5:23*am, "macropod" wrote:
Hi Judy, Find: ^p3 will only select: ¶ 30 if the '30' is in a field. Otherwise, it only selects: ¶ 3 -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Judy" wrote in ... XP Prof. / Word 2000 SP3. Find: ^p3 for text: Line 1: ... fling her Line 2: 30 Selection for found text extends from the paragraph mark at the end of line 1 to the zero at the end of line2, instead of only including the 3. Auto select entire word is clear. How can I get the selection I need?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks, macropod. Put me in the right direction. The numbers are indeed in fields, through no choice of mine. Looked for a macro to remove fields, but the one I found didn’t work. But when I pasted the text into Notepad and back into Word the fields were gone and the Find worked correctly. |
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To convert a field into ordinary text, select it and then use Ctrl+Shift+F9
or use a macro with the code ActiveDocument.Fields.Unlink -- 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 "Judy" wrote in message ... On Jul 19, 5:23 am, "macropod" wrote: Hi Judy, Find: ^p3 will only select: ¶ 30 if the '30' is in a field. Otherwise, it only selects: ¶ 3 -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Judy" wrote in ... XP Prof. / Word 2000 SP3. Find: ^p3 for text: Line 1: ... fling her Line 2: 30 Selection for found text extends from the paragraph mark at the end of line 1 to the zero at the end of line2, instead of only including the 3. Auto select entire word is clear. How can I get the selection I need?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks, macropod. Put me in the right direction. The numbers are indeed in fields, through no choice of mine. Looked for a macro to remove fields, but the one I found didn’t work. But when I pasted the text into Notepad and back into Word the fields were gone and the Find worked correctly. |
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