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Yes, I did try it with the period. It does not work: it does not limit the
distance between the words that are being searched. The asterisk * between the words searches for "one or MORE spaces and/or characters." Is there a way to LIMIT the spaces and/or characters between two words being searched? "Doug Robbins" wrote: Try including a period after the final * as was suggested. See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards" 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 "Philos" wrote in message ... I tried the following . *Peter*that* It finds these words, and the period preceeding them. But they are not in one sentence. They are anywhere in the document. likewise for this *Peter*that* "CyberTaz" wrote: You might be able to do it with wildcards, such as : .. *word1*word2*. Starting with the period followed by a space and ending with a period to indicate that the string be within a sentence. Haven't tested it, but it ought to work. Good Luck |:) On 8/28/05 4:55 PM, in article , "Philos" wrote: This is like a Boolean search; like you search in Google. You search for two or three words and finds documents with those words, anywhere in the document. However, in this case, in Word 2003, I am searching for two words in ONE SENTENCE, anywhere in the sentence. If I am not mistaken this feature was available in earlier editions of Word. Any solutions? |
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