replacing all occurances of <any number><dot> with <dot><same number>

[venu]

Hello friends,

I encountered a small problem when working on one of my documents. I
had earlier used the formatting style of <any number><dot> in my
document. Now i need to replace them with <dot><same number>.
eg: 16. to be replaced by .16
The problem is that the number could be any number, just that the dot
should now appear before that number. I have hundreds of such
occurances and it would take me a couple of hours if not more, to
replace each of them individually. Could someone suggest a better way
of doing it globally?

Thanks in advance
Venu

 

[Greg Maxey]

Venu,

You could try Edit>Replace>More>Use Wildcards, type:

([0-9]{1,}). in the find what field

and
..\1 in the replace with field.

See: http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Venu,

Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the box for "Use
wildcards".

Copy the expression from the next line of this message and paste it (with
Ctrl+V) into the Find What box:
([0-9]@).
Put the next expression in the Replace With box:
.\1
Click the Replace All button.

For more information, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm.