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Word 2003 Using Find to locate field brackets
In a long document with lots of fields, I noticed an occurrence of the
beginning and ending brackets {} but no field codes inside them. Is there a way to search for these empty field brackets without looking at every instance of a legitimate field? Thanks for anyone's help. Kathryn M |
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Kathryn M wrote:
In a long document with lots of fields, I noticed an occurrence of the beginning and ending brackets {} but no field codes inside them. Is there a way to search for these empty field brackets without looking at every instance of a legitimate field? Thanks for anyone's help. Hi Kathryn, There may be a way, although it isn't perfect. I'll assume that the empty field brackets were created by you (or someone) pressing Ctrl+F9. (The only other ways I know of to get them are to edit a field code and remove its contents, or to use a poorly written macro. Both of these are improbable.) I'll also assume that all the legitimate fields were inserted by the Insert Field dialog and haven't been hand-edited since then. In that case, you can press Alt+F9 to display all field codes, and then use Find or Replace to look for ^d followed by two spaces. The ^d finds the opening field bracket. All legitimate field codes have one space after that bracket, and then the code's keyword. There's another space preceding the closing bracket. The "empty" field has just the two spaces between the brackets. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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