I have a whole document with a lot of phone numbers (xx.xx.xx). But I want
to put before every phone number a zone number(056). So the result has to be
this: (056)xx.xx.xx. Can anyone help me with this?



Wim

From the Edit menu, select Replace and then click on the More button and
check the "Use wildcards" box. Then in the "Find what:" control, enter:

([0-9]{2}.[0-90]{2}.[0-9]{2})

and in the "Replace with:" control, enter:

(056)\1

Then click on Replace All.

For an explanation, See the article "Finding and replacing characters using
wildcards" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...gWildcards.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Wim Verschaeve" wrote in message
...
I have a whole document with a lot of phone numbers (xx.xx.xx). But I want
to put before every phone number a zone number(056). So the result has to
be this: (056)xx.xx.xx. Can anyone help me with this?



Wim

There's a typo in there Doug It should have read:
([0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2})


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

Doug Robbins wrote:
From the Edit menu, select Replace and then click on the More button
and check the "Use wildcards" box. Then in the "Find what:" control,
enter:
([0-9]{2}.[0-90]{2}.[0-9]{2})

and in the "Replace with:" control, enter:

(056)\1

Then click on Replace All.

For an explanation, See the article "Finding and replacing characters
using wildcards" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...gWildcards.htm


Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Wim Verschaeve" wrote in
message ...
I have a whole document with a lot of phone numbers (xx.xx.xx). But
I want to put before every phone number a zone number(056). So the
result has to be this: (056)xx.xx.xx. Can anyone help me with this?



Wim

Which must not matter because the string that I posted was copied from the
Edit Replace dialog after using it to successfully add the required area
code.

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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
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
There's a typo in there Doug It should have read:
([0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2})


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org

Doug Robbins wrote:
From the Edit menu, select Replace and then click on the More button
and check the "Use wildcards" box. Then in the "Find what:" control,
enter:
([0-9]{2}.[0-90]{2}.[0-9]{2})

and in the "Replace with:" control, enter:

(056)\1

Then click on Replace All.

For an explanation, See the article "Finding and replacing characters
using wildcards" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...gWildcards.htm


Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Wim Verschaeve" wrote in
message ...
I have a whole document with a lot of phone numbers (xx.xx.xx). But
I want to put before every phone number a zone number(056). So the
result has to be this: (056)xx.xx.xx. Can anyone help me with this?



Wim