advanced options in find/replace strings

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Recently, while reading some manual, I encoutered some expressions that can
be used in find or replace fields. They look like nothing I ever met before
in Word help files. Actually, they look like regexps, only they are not
regexps.

here is an example (this is used for coverting US financial formatting into
the Fench one)

Find what .([0-9][0-9])>

Replace with ,\1

then,

Find what ([0-9]),([0-9][0-9][0-9])

Replace with \1^s\2


("use wildcards" box should be checked in order for this to work)

Can anyone tell me where can I find a complete description of advanced
find/replace options so I could learn how to perform searches like this one?
 
See the article “Finding and replacing characters using wildcards” at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm


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