change dates separation symbols

[a453]

Hi all


I have a document with lots of dates written in the format DD.MM.YY..

I would like to automatically change all of them to DD/MM/YY.


Something like DD/MM/YY ---> if you have a 8 character string and the
sequnce of charcater is (1to3)(0to9) "."(0to1)(0to9) etc ?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Are we to assume that the dates are inserted as text and not fields? If they
are text then you can use replace with the wildcard option set to replace
([0-9]{2}).([0-9]{2}).([0-9]{2})
with
\1/\2/\3
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

If they are fields, let us know what type of fields.
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