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Word 2010 -- Removing page cites within a document
An attorney I work for will often dictate a memo on medical records, citing the page numbers within the paragraphs, i.e., (p. 27) (pp. 27-29) (p. 27, 29)
Often, she later copies that text into a letter to our client, but she needs to remove the page cites. I am moderately macro-intelligent, however, i am not sure how to create a macro that could search for the different variations of page cites. Is there a way to create a macro that could search for all variations of page cites and remove them? For instance, my fear is if i create a macro that searches for "(p" it might pick up a part of a word/sentence that is supposed to be set out in parenthesis. any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Andrea |
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If you could mark the text with a character style it would be easy to find.
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You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = ^32\(p[!\)]@\) Replace = nothing No macros required.
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Find = ^32\(p.[!\)]@\) Replace = nothing followed by Find = ^32\(pp.[!\)]@\) Replace = nothing Andrea: For more on wildcards. Here is a white paper on the subject. The searches are looking for a space before the first open parenthesis. If your attorney is at all like me and there are any where there is not a space first, they will not be replaced. To take care of that, you could take the ^32 out of the search strings in a cleanup. Also, remember that wildcard searches are case-sensitive so these will not find (P. 23). |
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Just tried again and it replaced all three. I must have not had a space in front of the one that didn't last time.
However, she did not want it to replace (paragraph 24). I'm sure you can put together a construction that will do either p. or pp. in one pass; I may try later tonight. |
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I don't see any indication of that in post #1, or even that such references exist.
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