Find and replace question

[Mary]

After finishing a long transcription of an interview
formatted with hanging indents I noticed that after many
of the indents, the first word in the sentence was not
capitalized. Although the document is short enough for me
to go back and change each one individually,I'd just like
to know how to do it with find and replace for future
reference. Although I'm new to "fine-tuning" my find and
replace, I got so far as finding ^t(<)([a-z])*(>)and it
found the tab and first word, but everything I put in the
Replace box failed. Can you please help me, and thanks!

 

[Graham Mayor]

You were almost there!
(^t[a-z])
replace with
\1 format > Font > All Caps
would have done the trick.

This finds any tab character followed by a lower case letter and replaces
the tab and the lower case letter with the All Caps format, which has the
effect of capitalizing the letter.

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[Helmut Weber]

Hi everybody,
but notice, that you have a capitalized tab now, too.
(Which is not relevant in most cases.)
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber
"red.sys" & chr$(64) & "t-online.de"
Word 97, NT4.0

 

[Graham Mayor]

I'm not sure that would matter in practice, but if it did, you would have to
replace the capitalized tab with an uncapitalized one in a separate pass.

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[Helmut Weber]

Hi Graham,
it certainly doesn't matter much in the new users group.
I wrote, because I did similar things in order to format
text as bold, italic and so on and got into a lot
of trouble, when tagging the text with Xpress-marks later.
Ending up with bold tabs and end of line marks as
small caps, confusing Xpress quite a bit.
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber
"red.sys" & chr$(64) & "t-online.de"
Word 97, NT4.0

 

[Graham Mayor]

To be honest I hadn't considered this a problem, but I can see how it would
be. Hopefully the correspondent will not find this an issue.

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