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That expression works in my copy of Word 2007, and it should work in yours. If you can't make it work, then try surrounding the space character (but not the {2,}) in square brackets: [ ]{2,} It definitely doesn't work I've tried both suggestions, to no avail... I've also turned on the "Show all formatting marks" just in case I was wrong about the empty spaces, and they was really there! I counted 13 dot marks just between the first surname and his time. I've also tried the ^s character (non-breaking space), just to receive the same disappointing error message |
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How very odd! Failing wild cards, you can always just search for two spaces
repeatedly until Find returns no results. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "geotso" wrote in message ... That expression works in my copy of Word 2007, and it should work in yours. If you can't make it work, then try surrounding the space character (but not the {2,}) in square brackets: [ ]{2,} It definitely doesn't work I've tried both suggestions, to no avail... I've also turned on the "Show all formatting marks" just in case I was wrong about the empty spaces, and they was really there! I counted 13 dot marks just between the first surname and his time. I've also tried the ^s character (non-breaking space), just to receive the same disappointing error message |
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then, "Jay Freedman" climbed to the rostrum and said:
If you use a wildcard expression but forget to check the "Use wildcards" box, it simply won't find anything. But if the box is checked and the expression isn't correctly formed according to the wildcard rules, then you get a message box saying that the search expression isn't valid. From geotso's post, I gathered that he saw the message box. I do see the message box, as you said, and I'm pretty sure I check the "use wildcards" checkbox! |
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then, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" climbed to the rostrum and said:
How very odd! Failing wild cards, you can always just search for two spaces repeatedly until Find returns no results. As I said, I've counted 13 empty spaces just in the first row of the list. Given that the list consists of 364 rows, could you please tell me how many "two spaces repeatedly" should I found to complete the search? Furthermore, the problem isn't just the amount of time I'll need for the specific task. The problem is why the wildcards don't work for me, while they do work for Jay and Suzanne? |
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I would actually start by searching for 13 spaces. When all these have been
converted to tabs, search for 12 spaces, and so on. This should require only a dozen passes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "geotso" wrote in message ... then, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" climbed to the rostrum and said: How very odd! Failing wild cards, you can always just search for two spaces repeatedly until Find returns no results. As I said, I've counted 13 empty spaces just in the first row of the list. Given that the list consists of 364 rows, could you please tell me how many "two spaces repeatedly" should I found to complete the search? Furthermore, the problem isn't just the amount of time I'll need for the specific task. The problem is why the wildcards don't work for me, while they do work for Jay and Suzanne? |
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then, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" climbed to the rostrum and said:
I would actually start by searching for 13 spaces. When all these have been converted to tabs, search for 12 spaces, and so on. This should require only a dozen passes. even so, WILDCARDS DON'T WORK... (Sorry for I'm yelling, but I'm really mad right now!) Following your suggestion I made these replacements: Replace all spaces/tabs occurrences with the string "zzz" (no quotes). So, I finally end up with something like this: 1. [name] [surname]zzzzzzzzzzzz[time] 2. [other name] [other surname]zzz[time] 3. [and so on]zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[time] Then, I tried to replace z{3,} with ^t (and yes, the "use wildcards" was checked*)... Guess what? The same ugly "invalid expression" message box! The solution: - Give up (or should I say through away?) Word and use UltraEdit Text Editor instead! |
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- Give up (or should I say through away?)
ooops! it should be throw away! Awful english - awful mood! |
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No, for the search I'm describing, you don't need wildcards. Just search
(without wildcards) for 13 spaces and replace with a tab. Then search for 12 spaces and replace with a tab. Alternatively, if there are no spaces within the names you want in separate cells, you can just search for ^w (white space) and replace with ^t. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "geotso" wrote in message ... then, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" climbed to the rostrum and said: I would actually start by searching for 13 spaces. When all these have been converted to tabs, search for 12 spaces, and so on. This should require only a dozen passes. even so, WILDCARDS DON'T WORK... (Sorry for I'm yelling, but I'm really mad right now!) Following your suggestion I made these replacements: Replace all spaces/tabs occurrences with the string "zzz" (no quotes). So, I finally end up with something like this: 1. [name] [surname]zzzzzzzzzzzz[time] 2. [other name] [other surname]zzz[time] 3. [and so on]zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz[time] Then, I tried to replace z{3,} with ^t (and yes, the "use wildcards" was checked*)... Guess what? The same ugly "invalid expression" message box! The solution: - Give up (or should I say through away?) Word and use UltraEdit Text Editor instead! |
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Send me a sample of the document to the link on my web site so that I can
check that we are all singing from the same hymn sheet, however in the meantime try a search for ([0-9]{1,}.)[ ]{1,}([A-Za-z]{1,})[ ]{1,}([A-Za-z]{1,})[ ^0160^t]{1,}([0-9]) replace with \1^t\2^t\3^t\4 with the wildcard option set. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org geotso wrote: - Give up (or should I say through away?) ooops! it should be throw away! Awful english - awful mood! |
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then, "Graham Mayor" climbed to the rostrum and said:
Send me a sample of the document to the link on my web site so that I can you (and everyone) can get it from he http://geotso.com/sample.aspx check that we are all singing from the same hymn sheet, however in the meantime try a search for ([0-9]{1,}.)[ ]{1,}([A-Za-z]{1,})[ ]{1,}([A-Za-z]{1,})[ ^0160^t]{1,}([0-9]) replace with \1^t\2^t\3^t\4 with the wildcard option set. The same "invalid expression" message box |
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