[dba-Tech] Word Replace with wildcard

[Rocky Smolin]

Haven't seen the post with the solution yet.  Sent?

r

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:55 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> < > denote the beginning and ending of a string, respectively -- so you
> don't need the spaces -- but I've figured it out. If you haven't seen that
> post, you should soon.
>
> Susan H.
>
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>
> Yeah, really worked well in DOS for file searches.  But that was in the
> previous century, wasn't it?
>
> OK- brute force alternative - assuming the doc is not a thousand pages and
> there are a relatively small number of these replacements - search for 3
> with a preceding space - (space)3 - and replace with (space)5, but not
> global, so you stop at each occurrence of a string that has a preceding
> space and starts with three. Then click Replace or Find Next.  Then if it
> stops at a string of four digits - 3123 - you could bypass the replace. How
> long would that take?
>
> r
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:37 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No, that replaces 3xx with 5?? -- interprets ? as a literal character,
> > not a wildcard.
> >
> > I saw a lot of examples online using ? but it never worked for me.
> >
> > Susan H.
> >
> >
> > Does the ? serve as a wildcard? Would replace 3?? with 5?? work?
> >
> > r
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:16 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I've run into an interesting find/replace question and I can do it
> > > with two searches, but I believe it can be done in one. I should
> > > know this, but for the life of me, I can't get it right. Hoping for
> > > a bit of
> > help.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Problem: Reader has a Word document with several three-digit numbers
> > > beginning with 3. He wants to change the 3 to 5, leaving the other
> > > two digits as is.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Susan H.
> > >
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