I think you're trying to do what Word already does for you. The
parenthesised expression is 'captured' automatically and "\1" can be used to
position it in the replace string without you needing to do anything. Adding
to the Find string means Word is looking for "\1" after your string, and
can't find it.

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"Paul B" wrote in message
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I've got a doc with several instances like this one:

LECTURE IX
CONVERSION

I'm trying to change that to:

Lecture IX: CONVERSION

This search string, with wildcards enabled,

LECTURE ([A-Z]{1,5})

does select the first line, above. But if I add a captu

LECTURE ([A-Z]{1,5})\1

I get no hits. I can't see what I've done wrong here.

Thanks,
p.

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