Highlite

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Steved

Hello from Steved

Highlite the word BY and then to ,( comma) same paragraph ( Caps )

BY ( whole word )

Background Blue and text white please.

examples BY TIMING, BY MEANING TO SEND,

Thankyou
 
S

Steved

Hello from Steved

Simply put, find BY and the next comma, highlite between BY and Comma

Highlite the word BY and then to ,( comma) same paragraph ( Caps )
BY ( whole word )
Background Blue and text white please.
examples BY TIMING, BY MEANING TO SEND,
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

It has been suggested that I ask:

Please describe what you want to happen in the following circumstances:

1. The tool finds "BY " but there is no subsequent comma in the same
paragraph.
2. The tool finds more than one string starting with "BY " and ending with
"," within one paragraph.
 
S

Steved

Hello from Steved

In this context in each paragraph has only one "BY" and always has a ",".

So the answer to your question Suzanne is as above.

The below is from 2 paragrahs I can now see the confusion.

examples below is 2 paragraphs off several.
BY TIMING,
BY MEANING TO SEND,
 
S

Steved

Hello JoAnn from Steved

Yes I can see where you are coming from, no this is a question as explained
in better detail in Suzanne's reply.

JoAnn Paules said:
I'm with Suzanne. Are you answering some old question or just posting
nonsense for the heck of it?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Steved said:
Hello from Steved

Simply put, find BY and the next comma, highlite between BY and Comma

Highlite the word BY and then to ,( comma) same paragraph ( Caps )
BY ( whole word )
Background Blue and text white please.
examples BY TIMING, BY MEANING TO SEND,
 
J

Jay Freedman

What you're looking for is a wildcard search
(http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm). The important
point is to click the More button in the dialog and click "Use
wildcards" to change the search mode.

In this case, your search expression could be

BY [A-Z ]{1,},

to find text that starts with BY and contains only upper case letters
and spaces (notice the space between the Z and the bracket) and ends
with a comma. If you don't care what characters come between BY and
the comma, including other punctuation, numbers, and lower case
letters, as long as they're in the same paragraph, then the search
expression could be

BY [!^13]{1,},
 
S

Steved

Thankyou Jay

Jay Freedman said:
What you're looking for is a wildcard search
(http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm). The important
point is to click the More button in the dialog and click "Use
wildcards" to change the search mode.

In this case, your search expression could be

BY [A-Z ]{1,},

to find text that starts with BY and contains only upper case letters
and spaces (notice the space between the Z and the bracket) and ends
with a comma. If you don't care what characters come between BY and
the comma, including other punctuation, numbers, and lower case
letters, as long as they're in the same paragraph, then the search
expression could be

BY [!^13]{1,},

Hello from Steved

In this context in each paragraph has only one "BY" and always has a ",".

So the answer to your question Suzanne is as above.

The below is from 2 paragrahs I can now see the confusion.

examples below is 2 paragraphs off several.
BY TIMING,
BY MEANING TO SEND,

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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