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Search and replace problem
I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same
word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan |
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Then try finding *ronmental and make that italics. No just joking. It's
really not clear what you are trying to do. If you want to make all incidents of "environmental" italics, I'd "find" all environmental and highlight them. (the button the highlight all is on the find screen) Once highlighted, if you click on the italics icon - they will all be changed to italics. "Jan Kronsell" wrote in message ... I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan |
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He wants to find environment and environmental and environs and italic all
those. Without doing three separate searches. But Lorrie probably landed on a solution anyhow--use the "highlight all" button in Find, then click italic. There's a lot of information about using wildcards here, which may or may not help, I can't imagine this can't be done without the "highlight all" solution, but I don't know enough to know. http://gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm On 3/29/05 2:59 PM, "Lorrie White" wrote: Then try finding *ronmental and make that italics. No just joking. It's really not clear what you are trying to do. If you want to make all incidents of "environmental" italics, I'd "find" all environmental and highlight them. (the button the highlight all is on the find screen) Once highlighted, if you click on the italics icon - they will all be changed to italics. "Jan Kronsell" wrote in message ... I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan -- 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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Wat I try to do is exactly like you describe. But apparently it can't be
done. I think I have tried almost any combination of using wildcards with no luck. I have also tried Highlight all, but that doesn't work either. It only highlight the part of the words I specify. So (and this is in Danish) if I search for "arbejds*" and highligt all, I only highligt those letters in words like "arbejdsmiljø", "arbejdsproces", "arbejsgiver" and so on. So guess I just have to do it the hard way. Jan "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . He wants to find environment and environmental and environs and italic all those. Without doing three separate searches. But Lorrie probably landed on a solution anyhow--use the "highlight all" button in Find, then click italic. There's a lot of information about using wildcards here, which may or may not help, I can't imagine this can't be done without the "highlight all" solution, but I don't know enough to know. http://gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm On 3/29/05 2:59 PM, "Lorrie White" wrote: Then try finding *ronmental and make that italics. No just joking. It's really not clear what you are trying to do. If you want to make all incidents of "environmental" italics, I'd "find" all environmental and highlight them. (the button the highlight all is on the find screen) Once highlighted, if you click on the italics icon - they will all be changed to italics. "Jan Kronsell" wrote in message ... I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan -- 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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Greetings--
Toggle regular expressions on and try the following search strings. Find box: (envi[a-z]@) Replace box: \1 Also add italic formatting to the Replace box. -- Cheers Robert On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:17:48 +0200, Jan Kronsell wrote: I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan |
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You are halfway there
You need a wildcard search for: arbejds* Replace with ^& and press CTRL+I in the replace box to give you the italic formatting option. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jan Kronsell wrote: Wat I try to do is exactly like you describe. But apparently it can't be done. I think I have tried almost any combination of using wildcards with no luck. I have also tried Highlight all, but that doesn't work either. It only highlight the part of the words I specify. So (and this is in Danish) if I search for "arbejds*" and highligt all, I only highligt those letters in words like "arbejdsmiljø", "arbejdsproces", "arbejsgiver" and so on. So guess I just have to do it the hard way. Jan "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . He wants to find environment and environmental and environs and italic all those. Without doing three separate searches. But Lorrie probably landed on a solution anyhow--use the "highlight all" button in Find, then click italic. There's a lot of information about using wildcards here, which may or may not help, I can't imagine this can't be done without the "highlight all" solution, but I don't know enough to know. http://gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm On 3/29/05 2:59 PM, "Lorrie White" wrote: Then try finding *ronmental and make that italics. No just joking. It's really not clear what you are trying to do. If you want to make all incidents of "environmental" italics, I'd "find" all environmental and highlight them. (the button the highlight all is on the find screen) Once highlighted, if you click on the italics icon - they will all be changed to italics. "Jan Kronsell" wrote in message ... I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan -- 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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Hi Graham
I tried that, but it doesn't replace anything. Jan "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You are halfway there You need a wildcard search for: arbejds* Replace with ^& and press CTRL+I in the replace box to give you the italic formatting option. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jan Kronsell wrote: Wat I try to do is exactly like you describe. But apparently it can't be done. I think I have tried almost any combination of using wildcards with no luck. I have also tried Highlight all, but that doesn't work either. It only highlight the part of the words I specify. So (and this is in Danish) if I search for "arbejds*" and highligt all, I only highligt those letters in words like "arbejdsmiljø", "arbejdsproces", "arbejsgiver" and so on. So guess I just have to do it the hard way. Jan "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . He wants to find environment and environmental and environs and italic all those. Without doing three separate searches. But Lorrie probably landed on a solution anyhow--use the "highlight all" button in Find, then click italic. There's a lot of information about using wildcards here, which may or may not help, I can't imagine this can't be done without the "highlight all" solution, but I don't know enough to know. http://gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm On 3/29/05 2:59 PM, "Lorrie White" wrote: Then try finding *ronmental and make that italics. No just joking. It's really not clear what you are trying to do. If you want to make all incidents of "environmental" italics, I'd "find" all environmental and highlight them. (the button the highlight all is on the find screen) Once highlighted, if you click on the italics icon - they will all be changed to italics. "Jan Kronsell" wrote in message ... I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan -- 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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Sorry. It worked allright. I made a mistake the first time i did it :-)
Jan "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You are halfway there You need a wildcard search for: arbejds* Replace with ^& and press CTRL+I in the replace box to give you the italic formatting option. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jan Kronsell wrote: Wat I try to do is exactly like you describe. But apparently it can't be done. I think I have tried almost any combination of using wildcards with no luck. I have also tried Highlight all, but that doesn't work either. It only highlight the part of the words I specify. So (and this is in Danish) if I search for "arbejds*" and highligt all, I only highligt those letters in words like "arbejdsmiljø", "arbejdsproces", "arbejsgiver" and so on. So guess I just have to do it the hard way. Jan "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message .. . He wants to find environment and environmental and environs and italic all those. Without doing three separate searches. But Lorrie probably landed on a solution anyhow--use the "highlight all" button in Find, then click italic. There's a lot of information about using wildcards here, which may or may not help, I can't imagine this can't be done without the "highlight all" solution, but I don't know enough to know. http://gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm On 3/29/05 2:59 PM, "Lorrie White" wrote: Then try finding *ronmental and make that italics. No just joking. It's really not clear what you are trying to do. If you want to make all incidents of "environmental" italics, I'd "find" all environmental and highlight them. (the button the highlight all is on the find screen) Once highlighted, if you click on the italics icon - they will all be changed to italics. "Jan Kronsell" wrote in message ... I like to replace all occurrences of words containing "envi " with the same word in italics. I have checked the Use wildcards and specified envi* in the search field and left the replace field empty, but for the italic formatting. I the use replace, and it put all occurences of envi in italics, but only that part of the word, not the whole word. So in "environmental" only the first for letters are put in italics. What am I doing wrong. Btw im using Word 2002. Jan -- 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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