-----Original Message-----
Hi, Janet,
Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
wildcards" option. Copy the following line and paste it in the Find What
box:
\([0-9]{1,}\)[ .,;:]
Leave the Replace With box empty and click the Replace All button.
To find out how this works and how to do other wildcard searches, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
How do it get rid of reference marks - parens and the digits inside
them? My doc has reference like this: 'He will (39) speak...' I have
other digits in the doc that I don't want to delete.
.
-----Original Message-----
Hi, Janet,
Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
wildcards" option. Copy the following line and paste it in the Find What
box:
\([0-9]{1,}\)[ .,;:]
Leave the Replace With box empty and click the Replace All button.
To find out how this works and how to do other wildcard searches, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
How do it get rid of reference marks - parens and the digits inside
them? My doc has reference like this: 'He will (39) speak...' I have
other digits in the doc that I don't want to delete.
.
Jay, I answered my own question, I think. You're saying
to find the figures in the parentheses followed by any of
the bracketed punctuation marks. Can you tell me why it
wouldn't find a question mark placed inside the brackets
alongside the other punctuation?-----Original Message-----
Hi, Janet,
Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
wildcards" option. Copy the following line and paste it in the Find
What box:
\([0-9]{1,}\)[ .,;:]
Leave the Replace With box empty and click the Replace All button.
To find out how this works and how to do other wildcard searches, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
How do it get rid of reference marks - parens and the digits inside
them? My doc has reference like this: 'He will (39) speak...' I have
other digits in the doc that I don't want to delete.
.
-----Original Message-----
Hi, Maria,
As the article explains in section 5, you can search for characters that
have special meanings in wildcard search expressions by including a
backslash before them. To be able to search for question marks and
exclamation marks, you can change the expression to
\([0-9]{1,}\)[ .,;:\?\!]
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
Jay, I answered my own question, I think. You're saying
to find the figures in the parentheses followed by any of
the bracketed punctuation marks. Can you tell me why it
wouldn't find a question mark placed inside the brackets
alongside the other punctuation?-----Original Message-----
Hi, Janet,
Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
wildcards" option. Copy the following line and paste it in the Find
What box:
\([0-9]{1,}\)[ .,;:]
Leave the Replace With box empty and click the Replace All button.
To find out how this works and how to do other wildcard searches, see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
Janet wrote:
How do it get rid of reference marks - parens and the digits inside
them? My doc has reference like this: 'He will (39) speak...' I have
other digits in the doc that I don't want to delete.
.
.
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