reformating a string...

[RAB]

Hello,

I have a word document that looks as follows:

{"word1 / word1a"},
{"word2 / word2a"},
{"word3 / word3a"},
......
{"word1000 / word1000a"}

What I need to do is remove the '/ wordxa' from the document so it
looks like this:

{"word1"},
{"word2"},
{"word3"},
......
{"word1000"}

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
RABMissouri2006

 

[Jay Freedman]

For the general answer, see
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm. The specific search
string to use with the wildcard setting in this case is

/ word[0-9]{1,}a

(include a single space before the slash character). The replacement
string should be empty. Then click the Replace All button.

This can be recorded or written directly as a macro if it's something
you need to do to many documents, but it doesn't seem necessary.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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