Removing names and year inside parenthesis on word 2004

[Tim]

I am trying to remove names and years from a text so that when I have
read it to me, I won't get bogged down with all the references. One
examples is ... illicit drugs (Brecht, Greenwell, & Anglin, 2007;
Fergusson et al., 2006a; Zimmer & Morgan, 1997). Is there a search and
replace command that I can do to have this info removed?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Tim:

The short answer is "No".

If the text is a Word document, you can remove the entire citation.

With some really tricky VBA you could remove everything between the
parentheses, but it's not that easy.

Sorry about that

Cheers

I am trying to remove names and years from a text so that when I have
read it to me, I won't get bogged down with all the references. One
examples is ... illicit drugs (Brecht, Greenwell, & Anglin, 2007;
Fergusson et al., 2006a; Zimmer & Morgan, 1997). Is there a search and
replace command that I can do to have this info removed?

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[Tim]

Hi Tim:

The short answer is "No".

If the text is a Word document, you can remove the entire citation.

With some really tricky VBA you could remove everything between the
parentheses, but it's not that easy.

Sorry about that

Cheers



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You said if the citation is in a word document I could remove that. It
is in a word document. Could you tell me how to do that? Thanks, in
advance.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Tim:

Well, I thought I could.

If you Search for "^d" (without the quotes) and replace that with nothing,
that should rip all the citations out of the document for you, immediately
and automatically.

However, I discover that due to a bug, it doesn't work in Word 2004.

Due to a bug, it doesn't work in Word 2008 either.

Or in Word 2003...

Do you see a pattern developing here? Obviously due to a bug in one of the
innumerable updates to Word, they've broken the feature.

Even the Help says it should work: so does Office Online:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051894331033.aspx

(Check the section on "Find and Replace using Codes")

But it doesn't...

{Sigh} I will put in a bug...

Sorry about that...

You said if the citation is in a word document I could remove that. It
is in a word document. Could you tell me how to do that? Thanks, in
advance.

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]