Hello,

I'm sure this is easy if you know how but I want to find any words contained
inside single inverted commas, for example, 'test' but I don't want to find
text strings that contain two single inverted commas, for example, he's slow
but it's not his fault.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
--
Thanks,
MarkN

You may have some problems depending on exactly waht sort of quotes you
have, but this ought to do it.

In Find and Replace
Check "Use Wildcards"
Find: '*'

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Enjoy,
Tony


"MarkN" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm sure this is easy if you know how but I want to find any words
contained
inside single inverted commas, for example, 'test' but I don't want to
find
text strings that contain two single inverted commas, for example, he's
slow
but it's not his fault.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
--
Thanks,
MarkN

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the response but this doesn't work for me. I am still able to use
'*' to find any two inverted commas and all the text in between but when I
put around it so that the Find box contains '*', I get a message to say
that the search item was not found.

--
Thanks,
MarkN


"Tony Jollans" wrote:

You may have some problems depending on exactly waht sort of quotes you
have, but this ought to do it.

In Find and Replace
Check "Use Wildcards"
Find: '*'

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"MarkN" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm sure this is easy if you know how but I want to find any words
contained
inside single inverted commas, for example, 'test' but I don't want to
find
text strings that contain two single inverted commas, for example, he's
slow
but it's not his fault.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
--
Thanks,
MarkN

Not sure what else to suggest - I just double checked and it works for me -
it does assume your quoted strings have space or punctuation before and
after but that would be normal. Can you give an example of something that
isn't found (with a little context).

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"MarkN" wrote in message
...
Hi Tony,

Thanks for the response but this doesn't work for me. I am still able to
use
'*' to find any two inverted commas and all the text in between but when I
put around it so that the Find box contains '*', I get a message to
say
that the search item was not found.

--
Thanks,
MarkN


"Tony Jollans" wrote:

You may have some problems depending on exactly waht sort of quotes you
have, but this ought to do it.

In Find and Replace
Check "Use Wildcards"
Find: '*'

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"MarkN" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I'm sure this is easy if you know how but I want to find any words
contained
inside single inverted commas, for example, 'test' but I don't want to
find
text strings that contain two single inverted commas, for example,
he's
slow
but it's not his fault.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
--
Thanks,
MarkN