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Find the last item
I should know this but I am drawing a blank.
Using FindReplaceUse Wildcards Find: b*^13 Replace with: ^& with format bold Why is the last line missed? (Note -It isn't if I ensure there is an empty paragraph following the last line) It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times Thanks. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. |
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Ummm... it wasn't missed here--all lines were changed (and I made sure there
was only 1 paragraph mark at the end). I wonder if your last paragraph mark is defective. I assuming you're using Word 2003. I wonder if we have the same compatibility settings (although I can't think of anything there, offhand, that would affect the results). Mine is set up as vanilla Word 2003. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... I should know this but I am drawing a blank. Using FindReplaceUse Wildcards Find: b*^13 Replace with: ^& with format bold Why is the last line missed? (Note -It isn't if I ensure there is an empty paragraph following the last line) It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times Thanks. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. |
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Herb,
Something odd going on here. My compatibility was Word2003 vanilla with two toppings. Add space for underlines Draw underlines on trailing spaces I cleared both and replacement worked as expected. I then closed Word. Went in and reapplied the two compatibility options and replace still works as expected. One of those perplexing things about Word. Thanks for the nudge. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote: Ummm... it wasn't missed here--all lines were changed (and I made sure there was only 1 paragraph mark at the end). I wonder if your last paragraph mark is defective. I assuming you're using Word 2003. I wonder if we have the same compatibility settings (although I can't think of anything there, offhand, that would affect the results). Mine is set up as vanilla Word 2003. I should know this but I am drawing a blank. Using FindReplaceUse Wildcards Find: b*^13 Replace with: ^& with format bold Why is the last line missed? (Note -It isn't if I ensure there is an empty paragraph following the last line) It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times Thanks. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. |
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On 9/18/05 12:33 AM, in article
, "Russs" wrote: On 9/18/05 12:10 AM, in article , "Russs" wrote: On 9/17/05 11:27 PM, in article , "Greg Maxey" wrote: I should know this but I am drawing a blank. Using FindReplaceUse Wildcards Find: b*^13 Replace with: ^& with format bold Why is the last line missed? (Note -It isn't if I ensure there is an empty paragraph following the last line) It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times Thanks. Greg, I was able to simulate what you said, if I run the replace with the cursor at the end of the file. If I move the cursor to the beginning of the file, the replace does find all the lines including the last one. Is that a bug in Word? I'm using Word 2004 on the Mac. I was able to narrow it down to the fact that if the cursor is before the 'b' in the last sentence, it will find the whole phrase in the last sentence. Therefore it must only check from the cursor position to the end of the current sentence that the cursor is in even if you want to check the whole document. Sorry to appear to ramble on, but I'm sending off messages as I think of something new. So it seems that Word marks the last sentence segment as already checked and doesn't see it again when it comes around full circle. Yes, it is like a bug. One way they could fix it is always start a 'global' document search from the beginning of the file. -- Russs drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID -- fix this before replying |
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On 9/17/05 9:10 PM, "Russs" wrote:
I'm using Word 2004 on the Mac. Sidenote: Hi Russs--did you know there are also Mac-specific MS newsgroups? You may find them useful someday. See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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On 9/18/05 11:44 AM, in article ,
"Daiya Mitchell" wrote: On 9/17/05 9:10 PM, "Russs" wrote: I'm using Word 2004 on the Mac. Sidenote: Hi Russs--did you know there are also Mac-specific MS newsgroups? You may find them useful someday. See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord, MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups Thanks Daiya, for the link. I wasn't aware of that webpage. I knew about Mactopia but didn't get involved with newsgroups until recently. I found the newsgroups through Entourage. You must be on the West Coast because of our difference in timestamps on our respective messages. Yes, I have browsed most of the Microsoft Word newsgroups, including the Mac newsgroup, for the last couple of months ever since I wanted to learn how to use Word to data mine files at work, which use WinWord. So I've been learning the ins and outs of Find and Replace and how to use them in macros. I'm familiar with all kinds of programming and the use of regular expressions or wildcards as Word calls them. I wish Microsoft would make the wildcards as powerful as some of the better forms of regular expressions. I'm comfortable on the Mac and Windows, but I love the Mac more, in big part because I can be more productive with less time rooting out virii and other malware or reinstalling the OS. I started off as a big fan of the Commodore Amiga. I did comment on another bug specific to the Mac, in the Mac newsgroup thread, '^13 code for finding paragraph marks is broken!' As a kludge fix, I can enclose ^13 like [\^13] to get it to work with wildcards on the Mac. Of course, using \n, which is also specific to Mac, I believe, is easier, but doesn't carry over to the Windows side in macros. drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID -- fix this before replying |
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Hi Russs,
You'll often run into problems when the cursor is in the middle of the expression you are searching for. More often than not, Word will miss the match since it searches downwards to the end of the document, and then back from the start. Find: a*b does seem to match if a and b are in the same word, but not in other cases. Probably the algorithm must decide how much of the text should be checked twice, and has to draw a line somewhere. It's safer to go to the beginning of the document (or story range) before you start a wildcard search. Regards, Klaus "Russs" schrieb im Newsbeitrag VALID... On 9/18/05 12:33 AM, in article , "Russs" wrote: On 9/18/05 12:10 AM, in article , "Russs" wrote: On 9/17/05 11:27 PM, in article , "Greg Maxey" wrote: I should know this but I am drawing a blank. Using FindReplaceUse Wildcards Find: b*^13 Replace with: ^& with format bold Why is the last line missed? (Note -It isn't if I ensure there is an empty paragraph following the last line) It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times It was the best of times it was the worst of times Thanks. Greg, I was able to simulate what you said, if I run the replace with the cursor at the end of the file. If I move the cursor to the beginning of the file, the replace does find all the lines including the last one. Is that a bug in Word? I'm using Word 2004 on the Mac. I was able to narrow it down to the fact that if the cursor is before the 'b' in the last sentence, it will find the whole phrase in the last sentence. Therefore it must only check from the cursor position to the end of the current sentence that the cursor is in even if you want to check the whole document. Sorry to appear to ramble on, but I'm sending off messages as I think of something new. So it seems that Word marks the last sentence segment as already checked and doesn't see it again when it comes around full circle. Yes, it is like a bug. One way they could fix it is always start a 'global' document search from the beginning of the file. -- Russs drsmN0SPAMikleAThotmailD0Tcom.INVALID -- fix this before replying |
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