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How do I search for abbreviations in Word ?
I have a word document in which there are a lot of technical abbreviations.
Now I'd like to find all of the abbreviations in order to create a list for explaining these abbreviations. Is there a way to search for example for words with two or more upper case letters after one another? Or another way to find the abbreviations? I couldn't come up with a "Find" function to do this. Maybe if I wrote a macro of some kind? Thanks for all the help before hand. |
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How do I search for abbreviations in Word ?
To find 'words' that begin wih two uppercase letters, check "Use wildcards"
and find "[A-Z][A-Z]" (without the quotes). To find them in the middle of a word is slightly more complex. -- Enjoy, Tony "Liisa" wrote in message ... I have a word document in which there are a lot of technical abbreviations. Now I'd like to find all of the abbreviations in order to create a list for explaining these abbreviations. Is there a way to search for example for words with two or more upper case letters after one another? Or another way to find the abbreviations? I couldn't come up with a "Find" function to do this. Maybe if I wrote a macro of some kind? Thanks for all the help before hand. |
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How do I search for abbreviations in Word ?
Tony,
This little gem saved me a bunch of time, Thank you. I have an additional question for you. Is there a way of auto extracting the highlighted data to a separate location? -- Jerry "Tony Jollans" wrote: To find 'words' that begin wih two uppercase letters, check "Use wildcards" and find "[A-Z][A-Z]" (without the quotes). To find them in the middle of a word is slightly more complex. -- Enjoy, Tony "Liisa" wrote in message ... I have a word document in which there are a lot of technical abbreviations. Now I'd like to find all of the abbreviations in order to create a list for explaining these abbreviations. Is there a way to search for example for words with two or more upper case letters after one another? Or another way to find the abbreviations? I couldn't come up with a "Find" function to do this. Maybe if I wrote a macro of some kind? Thanks for all the help before hand. |
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