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Finding all paragraphs with quotes
Hi everybody,
I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Try ^0147. Does that work for you?
-- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I
guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Have you tried:
\"(*)\" with wildcards on. "jezzica85" wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Search for
^0147*^13 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Thanks Herb,
So far that comes the closest to what I'm looking for (thank you to Dean also!), but it doesn't select the entire paragraph if the entire paragraph isn't surrounded by quotes. It selects the first quote all the way to the end of the paragraph right now, but doesn't select the rest of the paragraph if the paragraph doesn't start with a quote. To be clear, if a paragraph is like: "blah" text "blah" or "blah" text it selects the whole paragraph fine, but if the paragraph is like: text "blah" or text "blah" text it misses the beginning of those last two cases. Thanks for your help so far, Jezzica85 I tried putting a tab character with a star before what you put down, but that selects everything. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Search for ^0147*^13 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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We are now in macro territory. What do you want to do with the paragraph
when you have found it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks Herb, So far that comes the closest to what I'm looking for (thank you to Dean also!), but it doesn't select the entire paragraph if the entire paragraph isn't surrounded by quotes. It selects the first quote all the way to the end of the paragraph right now, but doesn't select the rest of the paragraph if the paragraph doesn't start with a quote. To be clear, if a paragraph is like: "blah" text "blah" or "blah" text it selects the whole paragraph fine, but if the paragraph is like: text "blah" or text "blah" text it misses the beginning of those last two cases. Thanks for your help so far, Jezzica85 I tried putting a tab character with a star before what you put down, but that selects everything. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Search for ^0147*^13 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Oh no, macros... *shudder*
Basically, all I want is to select the paragraph so I can copy it. I'm using these paragraphs as input for a program. They don't need to be changed in any way; I just need them as is. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Graham Mayor" wrote: We are now in macro territory. What do you want to do with the paragraph when you have found it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks Herb, So far that comes the closest to what I'm looking for (thank you to Dean also!), but it doesn't select the entire paragraph if the entire paragraph isn't surrounded by quotes. It selects the first quote all the way to the end of the paragraph right now, but doesn't select the rest of the paragraph if the paragraph doesn't start with a quote. To be clear, if a paragraph is like: "blah" text "blah" or "blah" text it selects the whole paragraph fine, but if the paragraph is like: text "blah" or text "blah" text it misses the beginning of those last two cases. Thanks for your help so far, Jezzica85 I tried putting a tab character with a star before what you put down, but that selects everything. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Search for ^0147*^13 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Finding all paragraphs with quotes
The following macro http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm will select
the next paragraph from the cursor position that contains the quote character. Add it to a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut. The macro exits the loop when the character is found. Sub FindQuotes() Dim strFind As String Dim aText As String Dim aEntry As AutoCorrectEntry strFind = "^0147" With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .MatchWildcards = True Do While .Execute(findText:=strFind, _ Wrap:=wdFindContinue, Forward:=True, _ MatchWildcards:=False) = True aText = Selection With Selection .MoveUp Unit:=wdParagraph .ExtendMode = True .MoveDown Unit:=wdParagraph End With Exit Sub Loop End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Oh no, macros... *shudder* Basically, all I want is to select the paragraph so I can copy it. I'm using these paragraphs as input for a program. They don't need to be changed in any way; I just need them as is. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Graham Mayor" wrote: We are now in macro territory. What do you want to do with the paragraph when you have found it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks Herb, So far that comes the closest to what I'm looking for (thank you to Dean also!), but it doesn't select the entire paragraph if the entire paragraph isn't surrounded by quotes. It selects the first quote all the way to the end of the paragraph right now, but doesn't select the rest of the paragraph if the paragraph doesn't start with a quote. To be clear, if a paragraph is like: "blah" text "blah" or "blah" text it selects the whole paragraph fine, but if the paragraph is like: text "blah" or text "blah" text it misses the beginning of those last two cases. Thanks for your help so far, Jezzica85 I tried putting a tab character with a star before what you put down, but that selects everything. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Search for ^0147*^13 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Plan B - If you want to page through the document, by re-clicking the
toolbar button, you will need an extra line placed as shown below strFind = "^0147" Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine 'add this line With Selection.Find -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Oh no, macros... *shudder* Basically, all I want is to select the paragraph so I can copy it. I'm using these paragraphs as input for a program. They don't need to be changed in any way; I just need them as is. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Graham Mayor" wrote: We are now in macro territory. What do you want to do with the paragraph when you have found it? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks Herb, So far that comes the closest to what I'm looking for (thank you to Dean also!), but it doesn't select the entire paragraph if the entire paragraph isn't surrounded by quotes. It selects the first quote all the way to the end of the paragraph right now, but doesn't select the rest of the paragraph if the paragraph doesn't start with a quote. To be clear, if a paragraph is like: "blah" text "blah" or "blah" text it selects the whole paragraph fine, but if the paragraph is like: text "blah" or text "blah" text it misses the beginning of those last two cases. Thanks for your help so far, Jezzica85 I tried putting a tab character with a star before what you put down, but that selects everything. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Search for ^0147*^13 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jezzica85 wrote: Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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Hi, Jezzica85,
Looks like you might not need a macro after all. :-) It took some experimenting to find a pattern that does what you want, but, with Use Wildcards enabled, the following search pattern appears to select the next paragraph that contains an opening smart quote: [!^13]@^0147*^13 What this does... [!^13] means "anything that isn't a paragraph mark". ! means "not". @ means "any number of the preceding character". * means any string of characters. So... this searches for any number of non-paragraph characters, followed by an opening smart quote, followed by a string of any length, followed by a paragraph mark. So... this should match the first characters of the paragraph, up to the smart quote, and from there to the end of the paragraph. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message news  Thanks for the reply Herb, but I'm not just looking for the quotes per se. I guess I wasn't clear, sorry about that. What I'd like to do is be able to select every paragraph that contains an opening curly quote, not just the quotes themselves. Thanks, Jezzica85 "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Try ^0147. Does that work for you? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "jezzica85" wrote in message ... Hi everybody, I've been fighting with Find and Replace for a while now, and I can't figure this out--can anyone please tell me how to find every paragraph that has an opening quotation mark anywhere in it? It doesn't show up here unfortunately, but I'm looking for the curly opening quotes--they're ascii code 0147, if that helps. Thank you! Jezzica85 |
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