[raffrobb]

Hi Word Users:

Word 2007

I have a long word document, which is a 10K (Annual Report) SEC Filing
that I need to outline.

The document in its current form does not have any structure or
numbering or assigned headings. I want to simultaneously select all
the words or sentences that are bold, italic, or contain the word
“item”.

Then paste onto a new document with existing format.
I need to exclude any tables.

Any help with a macro or wildcard find replace would be most useful.

Thanks,
Robb

[Graham Mayor]

Hmmm. If you are going to process this document and extract the items in the
order in which they appear though they may have bold, or italic, or perhaps
both, or the Word 'item' (presumably in lower case) then replace isn't going
to work. Replace doesn't do 'OR' so you would have to extract first italic,
then bold (and worry about what to do when items are bold and italic) then
item, which frankly I don't see helping you.

You could process each word separately which would take a long time, or each
paragraph separately which would be quicker, but would you want the whole
paragraph extracted or just the relevant words from it?

Your requirement is too vague to suggest a way forward.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



"raffrobb" wrote in message
...
Hi Word Users:

Word 2007

I have a long word document, which is a 10K (Annual Report) SEC Filing
that I need to outline.

The document in its current form does not have any structure or
numbering or assigned headings. I want to simultaneously select all
the words or sentences that are bold, italic, or contain the word
“item”.

Then paste onto a new document with existing format.
I need to exclude any tables.

Any help with a macro or wildcard find replace would be most useful.

Thanks,
Robb

[Graham Mayor]

Hmmm. If you are going to process this document and extract the items in the
order in which they appear though they may have bold, or italic, or perhaps
both, or the Word 'item' (presumably in lower case) then replace isn't going
to work. Replace doesn't do 'OR' so you would have to extract first italic,
then bold (and worry about what to do when items are bold and italic) then
item, which frankly I don't see helping you.

You could process each word separately which would take a long time, or each
paragraph separately which would be quicker, but would you want the whole
paragraph extracted or just the relevant words from it?

Your requirement is too vague to suggest a way forward.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



"raffrobb" wrote in message
...
Hi Word Users:

Word 2007

I have a long word document, which is a 10K (Annual Report) SEC Filing
that I need to outline.

The document in its current form does not have any structure or
numbering or assigned headings. I want to simultaneously select all
the words or sentences that are bold, italic, or contain the word
“item”.

Then paste onto a new document with existing format.
I need to exclude any tables.

Any help with a macro or wildcard find replace would be most useful.

Thanks,
Robb