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Hi all,

I am using the 'Find' feature within Word to locate all my acronyms. I am
using the following command in Find

[A-Z]{2,}

That's proved great so far as it finds things like BBC, NBC, etc. However
the above doesn't find acronyms which have speechmarks around them, i.e. -
'BBC' 'NBC'.

Please can anyone help me with this?

Gratefully,

Danny
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You could use
['A-Z]{3,}
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

You may find - 'Extract Acronyms to a new document' at
http://www.gmayor.com/word_vba_examples.htm useful also.

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Danny boy wrote:
Hi all,

I am using the 'Find' feature within Word to locate all my acronyms.
I am using the following command in Find

[A-Z]{2,}

That's proved great so far as it finds things like BBC, NBC, etc.
However the above doesn't find acronyms which have speechmarks around
them, i.e. - 'BBC' 'NBC'.

Please can anyone help me with this?

Gratefully,

Danny



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Brilliant - thanks Graham. You're a legend!


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You could use
['A-Z]{3,}
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

You may find - 'Extract Acronyms to a new document' at
http://www.gmayor.com/word_vba_examples.htm useful also.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Danny boy wrote:
Hi all,

I am using the 'Find' feature within Word to locate all my acronyms.
I am using the following command in Find

[A-Z]{2,}

That's proved great so far as it finds things like BBC, NBC, etc.
However the above doesn't find acronyms which have speechmarks around
them, i.e. - 'BBC' 'NBC'.

Please can anyone help me with this?

Gratefully,

Danny




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