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Old 03-28-2016, 09:17 PM
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Hello! I am trying to find all instances where words are capitalized like this:

GEORGE AND JACK)

The number of words varies, but they are all caps and end with a parenthesis.



I can't figure out how to set up the wildcard so that it doesn't go to cap words like "I", but only the sequence that ends with a ")".

Please, help me? I have around 3000 of these that I need to delete
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You could use a wildcard Find, where:
Find = <[A-Z ]@\)
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Old 03-29-2016, 09:12 AM
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Thank you! That's exactly what I needed
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