Find and Replace Continued

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Maria

I feel so stupid! It just dawned on me to put a * after
the R!

One more question: Somehow I can't grasp the concept
behind the ! in a find and replace string. I see it used
in examples and at the time, I think I get it; but when
putting it into practice I'm a total failure. Is there
some sure fire way I could know when and how to use this
wildcard? I need just a little more enlightenment.

THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN!
 
["Edit > Find" with "Use wildcards"]
One more question: Somehow I can't grasp the concept
behind the ! in a find and replace string. I see it used
in examples and at the time, I think I get it; but when
putting it into practice I'm a total failure. Is there
some sure fire way I could know when and how to use this
wildcard? I need just a little more enlightenment.
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Hi Maria,

From Word's help file:
~~~~~~~~~~
Any single character except the characters in the range inside the brackets
Type [!x-z]
For example, t[!a-m]ck finds "tock" and "tuck", but not "tack" or "tick".
~~~~~~~~~~

You can read the ! as "not".
It only appears at the start of some characters or ranges of characters in
square braces.
[x-z] = match a character if it's x or y or z.
[!x-z] = match a character if it's not x or y or z.

Greetings,
Klaus
 
My heartfelt thanks, Klaus! The greatest single help in my
word processing career has been the MVP article you co-
authored.
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["Edit > Find" with "Use wildcards"]
One more question: Somehow I can't grasp the concept
behind the ! in a find and replace string. I see it used
in examples and at the time, I think I get it; but when
putting it into practice I'm a total failure. Is there
some sure fire way I could know when and how to use this
wildcard? I need just a little more enlightenment.
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Hi Maria,

From Word's help file:
~~~~~~~~~~
Any single character except the characters in the range inside the brackets
Type [!x-z]
For example, t[!a-m]ck finds "tock" and "tuck", but not "tack" or "tick".
~~~~~~~~~~

You can read the ! as "not".
It only appears at the start of some characters or ranges of characters in
square braces.
[x-z] = match a character if it's x or y or z.
[!x-z] = match a character if it's not x or y or z.

Greetings,
Klaus


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Yes, please do thank Graham!

But I have just one last request (for a while): Please
get together soon and keep adding to your article. I check
from time to time to see if just one more paragraph is
there that I haven't seen before.

I must have previously read dozens of articles about what
wildcards would do, but it was only when I came across
your article--with the clear, simple EXAMPLES that you
gave--that I began to understand and use wildcards in my
everyday work, and now I wonder how I worked a day without
them.

Thanks again, my friends!
 
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