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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage
Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
The following seems to work:
1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it
isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Improving slightly on Stefan's solution, this seems to work if the cottage
names are inside a paragraph of normal text: Find What: (Cottage)( )(*) Replace With: \3\2\1 Cheers, Chris. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Replace (wildcards)
(Cottage) ([a-zA-Z]{2,}) with \2 \1 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stefan Blom wrote: Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Now I'm going to make it harder
 Some of the cottages have names like Cottage Espace 4 Cottage Laurier Rose But they are on separate lines. No other text on the line Robin On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:32:48 +0100, "ChrisM" wrote: Improving slightly on Stefan's solution, this seems to work if the cottage names are inside a paragraph of normal text: Find What: (Cottage)( )(*) Replace With: \3\2\1 Cheers, Chris. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
It's OK. I did the more complicated ones manually. But thanks. This
saved me about 60 simple instances. On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:43:42 +0100, Rob wrote: Now I'm going to make it harder Some of the cottages have names like Cottage Espace 4 Cottage Laurier Rose But they are on separate lines. No other text on the line Robin On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:32:48 +0100, "ChrisM" wrote: Improving slightly on Stefan's solution, this seems to work if the cottage names are inside a paragraph of normal text: Find What: (Cottage)( )(*) Replace With: \3\2\1 Cheers, Chris. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Thank you! :-)
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "ChrisM" wrote in message ... Improving slightly on Stefan's solution, this seems to work if the cottage names are inside a paragraph of normal text: Find What: (Cottage)( )(*) Replace With: \3\2\1 Cheers, Chris. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Assuming that I understood it correctly, this search finds A (the word
"Cottage"), a space, and B (a word with at least two characters, which can be uppercase or lowercase letters) and replaces it with B, a space, and A. I'm not sure what the restriction on B is for? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Replace (wildcards) (Cottage) ([a-zA-Z]{2,}) with \2 \1 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stefan Blom wrote: Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
It's just a way of ensuring you get the next word. The number is not
especially important as long as it is less than the likely number of characters in 'B' ChrisM's suggestion of (Cottage) (*) should work equally well, though personally I don't much care for the * wildcard if it can be avoided. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stefan Blom wrote: Assuming that I understood it correctly, this search finds A (the word "Cottage"), a space, and B (a word with at least two characters, which can be uppercase or lowercase letters) and replaces it with B, a space, and A. I'm not sure what the restriction on B is for? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Replace (wildcards) (Cottage) ([a-zA-Z]{2,}) with \2 \1 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stefan Blom wrote: Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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Using Find replace to reverse words: Cottage Mimosa Mimosa Cottage,etc
Thank you for the clarification.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... It's just a way of ensuring you get the next word. The number is not especially important as long as it is less than the likely number of characters in 'B' ChrisM's suggestion of (Cottage) (*) should work equally well, though personally I don't much care for the * wildcard if it can be avoided. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stefan Blom wrote: Assuming that I understood it correctly, this search finds A (the word "Cottage"), a space, and B (a word with at least two characters, which can be uppercase or lowercase letters) and replaces it with B, a space, and A. I'm not sure what the restriction on B is for? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Replace (wildcards) (Cottage) ([a-zA-Z]{2,}) with \2 \1 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stefan Blom wrote: Note that if your document contains more than a list of names, it isn't a good idea to use the suggested search. :-( Hopefully, someone can come up with a better idea. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... The following seems to work: 1. Choose Edit | Replace. 2. Click the More button, if necessary. 3. Check the "Use wildcards" option. 4. "Find what": (*)( )(*) 5. "Replace with": \3\2\1 6. Click Replace All. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Rob" wrote in message ... I have a text with names of cottages in French word order: Cottage Mimosa, Cottage Alohi, etc. How can I use Find/Replace to change them all to Mimosa Cottage, Alohi Cottage, etc.? TIA Robin |
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