[Island Girl]

I have many pages of addresses, all of which should bear the same zipcode of
33032.

I'm trying to find all instances of 5 numbers preceded by a space that are
not 33032, since several people have worked on the document and there appear
to be quite a few errors in typing that zip code.

I'm sure the "but not" is in there somewhere but I just can't get it placed
so that I get results. That expression gets me every single time!

Thanks for this and all of your wonderful help over the years. I hope
everybody had a bounteous Thanksgiving. I sure am thankful for you.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

In the Replace dialog, click on the More button and the check the Use
wildcards box. Then in the Find what control, enter

[0-9]{5}

and in the Replace with control enter

33032

and then click on Replace all.

See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at:

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


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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

"Island Girl" wrote in message
...
I have many pages of addresses, all of which should bear the same zipcode
of
33032.

I'm trying to find all instances of 5 numbers preceded by a space that are
not 33032, since several people have worked on the document and there
appear
to be quite a few errors in typing that zip code.

I'm sure the "but not" is in there somewhere but I just can't get it
placed
so that I get results. That expression gets me every single time!

Thanks for this and all of your wonderful help over the years. I hope
everybody had a bounteous Thanksgiving. I sure am thankful for you.

[Island Girl]

Doug, I feel so stupid! I really didn't need to worry about the typos after
all--just change the correct as well as the incorrect at one time!

Thanks so very much!

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

In the Replace dialog, click on the More button and the check the Use
wildcards box. Then in the Find what control, enter

[0-9]{5}

and in the Replace with control enter

33032

and then click on Replace all.

See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at:

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


--
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

"Island Girl" wrote in message
...
I have many pages of addresses, all of which should bear the same zipcode
of
33032.

I'm trying to find all instances of 5 numbers preceded by a space that are
not 33032, since several people have worked on the document and there
appear
to be quite a few errors in typing that zip code.

I'm sure the "but not" is in there somewhere but I just can't get it
placed
so that I get results. That expression gets me every single time!

Thanks for this and all of your wonderful help over the years. I hope
everybody had a bounteous Thanksgiving. I sure am thankful for you.

[shasunder]

Better try this.

If you are sure that you want to find all the instances of 5 numbers
preceded by a space then in the find dialog box type as ^#^#^#^#^# and in
the replace dialog box type 33032 and click on replace all command button.
Hope this is what you are looking for.
--
Shanmuga Sundaram
Impossible is Impossible


"Island Girl" wrote:

Doug, I feel so stupid! I really didn't need to worry about the typos after
all--just change the correct as well as the incorrect at one time!

Thanks so very much!

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

In the Replace dialog, click on the More button and the check the Use
wildcards box. Then in the Find what control, enter

[0-9]{5}

and in the Replace with control enter

33032

and then click on Replace all.

See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" at:

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


--
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

"Island Girl" wrote in message
...
I have many pages of addresses, all of which should bear the same zipcode
of
33032.

I'm trying to find all instances of 5 numbers preceded by a space that are
not 33032, since several people have worked on the document and there
appear
to be quite a few errors in typing that zip code.

I'm sure the "but not" is in there somewhere but I just can't get it
placed
so that I get results. That expression gets me every single time!

Thanks for this and all of your wonderful help over the years. I hope
everybody had a bounteous Thanksgiving. I sure am thankful for you.