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Limiting find to two words
I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending
with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't help me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed directly by *ing? Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it with the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I have in a document. Thanks in advance! |
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Limiting find to two words
Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing.
There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how many times it "replaced" it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "froggfeathers" wrote in message ... I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't help me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed directly by *ing? Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it with the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I have in a document. Thanks in advance! |
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Limiting find to two words
In Edit Find, you can also check the box for "Match wildcards" and then
use Find what: [!^32]@^32[!^32]@ing Replace with: ^& (and then click "Replace all"). The Find expression won't just match verbs though, but will also find "mean something" and any other two words where the second ends with "ing"! ^32 is the code for a space. You could also type in a space instead. [!^32]@ or [! ]@ matches a bunch of characters that are not spaces. matches the start of a word, the end. Regards, Klaus "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing. There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how many times it "replaced" it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "froggfeathers" wrote in message ... I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't help me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed directly by *ing? Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it with the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I have in a document. Thanks in advance! |
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Limiting find to two words
"JoAnn Paules" wrote: Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing. I am looking for was *ing. The problem is that it won't just pickup two words. It will pick up a whole paragraph from the time it sees the word was until (three sentences later) it finds an *ing word. There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how many times it "replaced" it. If I do this, will word maintain the capitals and non-caps? Thanks for the reply. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "froggfeathers" wrote in message ... I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't help me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed directly by *ing? Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it with the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I have in a document. Thanks in advance! |
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Limiting find to two words
I can work with that. I didn't think to put in the space. Thanks so much. Frogg "Klaus Linke" wrote: In Edit Find, you can also check the box for "Match wildcards" and then use Find what: [!^32]@^32[!^32]@ing Replace with: ^& (and then click "Replace all"). The Find expression won't just match verbs though, but will also find "mean something" and any other two words where the second ends with "ing"! ^32 is the code for a space. You could also type in a space instead. [!^32]@ or [! ]@ matches a bunch of characters that are not spaces. matches the start of a word, the end. |
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