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Find and Replace Question--Word 2003
I have a series of large legal documents with numbered paragraphs that I
must now renumber since a paragraph or two had to be removed. (Yes, automatic numbering woud be an easy answer but for several reasons it's not a practical solution as each document becomes a template of sorts for subsequent ones. It's a long story) I use Find and replace quite a bit, including with wild cards, but for other purposes. Is there a way using Find and replace to do this? Finding each number is simple enough, but I am having trouble figuring out exactly how to replace it with a number, in this case, 1 digit less than the original number. If I only had to do this once I'd just slog through it changing one at a time. But I run into this fairly often, because paragraphs are removed or added, thus throwing all the subsequent numbering off.. I would appreciate any suggestions |
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Find and Replace Question--Word 2003
Perhaps a macro could do this? Ask in a programming newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.word.vba.general. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Joe McGuire" wrote: I have a series of large legal documents with numbered paragraphs that I must now renumber since a paragraph or two had to be removed. (Yes, automatic numbering woud be an easy answer but for several reasons it's not a practical solution as each document becomes a template of sorts for subsequent ones. It's a long story) I use Find and replace quite a bit, including with wild cards, but for other purposes. Is there a way using Find and replace to do this? Finding each number is simple enough, but I am having trouble figuring out exactly how to replace it with a number, in this case, 1 digit less than the original number. If I only had to do this once I'd just slog through it changing one at a time. But I run into this fairly often, because paragraphs are removed or added, thus throwing all the subsequent numbering off.. I would appreciate any suggestions |
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Find and Replace Question--Word 2003
You might also find third party software worth looking into. Here's an
example http://www.editorium.com/listfixer.htm site. PamC Stefan Blom wrote: Perhaps a macro could do this? Ask in a programming newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general. I have a series of large legal documents with numbered paragraphs that I must now renumber since a paragraph or two had to be removed. (Yes, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] often, because paragraphs are removed or added, thus throwing all the subsequent numbering off.. I would appreciate any suggestions -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200905/1 |
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