Limiting find to two words

[froggfeathers]

I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending
with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't help
me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed
directly by *ing?

Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it with
the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I have
in a document.

Thanks in advance!

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing.

There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and
replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how
many times it "replaced" it.

 

[Klaus Linke]

In Edit > Find, you can also check the box for "Match wildcards" and then
use
Find what: <[!^32]@^32[!^32]@ing>
Replace with: ^&
(and then click "Replace all").

The Find expression won't just match verbs though, but will also find "mean
something" and any other two words where the second ends with "ing"!

^32 is the code for a space. You could also type in a space instead.
[!^32]@ or [! ]@ matches a bunch of characters that are not spaces.
< matches the start of a word, > the end.

Regards,
Klaus

Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing.

There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and
replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how
many times it "replaced" it.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending
with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't
help
me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed
directly by *ing?

Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it
with
the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I
have
in a document.

Thanks in advance!

 

[froggfeathers]

Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing.

I am looking for was *ing. The problem is that it won't just pickup two
words. It will pick up a whole paragraph from the time it sees the word was
until (three sentences later) it finds an *ing word.

There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and
replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how
many times it "replaced" it.

If I do this, will word maintain the capitals and non-caps?

Thanks for the reply.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending
with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't
help
me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed
directly by *ing?

Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it
with
the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I
have
in a document.

Thanks in advance!

 

[froggfeathers]

I can work with that. I didn't think to put in the space. Thanks so much.

Frogg