Hi,

I use Word 97 at my work for transcription, with a Q and A format at the start of each line, and text after each Q and A. The problem is that sometimes I accidentally use A or Q twice in a row, and it can be easy to miss this. Ideally I want to be able to quickly find repeated instances with find and replace, but I don't know how to do this because there's text between each Q and A. Is there a way to represent text after the first letter of each line as a wildcard that I can exclude, so that I can then find repetition between the first letters of lines? If I just had Qs and As by themselves this would be trivial, as I could just go find Q^pQ or A^pA to identify repetition. There is the option of replacing all text besides the Qs and As at the start of each line with nothing, but since I can't record this as a macro, this doesn't really save much time.

Thanks.