If the words are bracketed as shown then
\([a-zA-Z]{2,}|[a-zA-Z]{2,}\)
will find them
If the words are not bracketed use
[a-zA-Z]{2,}|[a-zA-Z]{2,}
These will find the whole string. Depending upon what you want to do with
the string having found it determines whether anything else needs to be
added.
See
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
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Hikari wrote:
Hello All,
New poster, I did my best to search for this answer using keywords
such as: atomic grouping, alternatives, bar OR pip equivalent, etc...
but had no luck
My question is, is there/what is the Microsoft Word find/replace
equivalent of the regular expression
(word1|word2)
?
I've obviously tried | and \| with no luck. And any webpage I found
with discussion of advanced find/replace for word did not go into
atomic grouping.
Thanks so much!
-Hikari