Thread: [Solved] Removing a duplicate words
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Old 06-01-2021, 02:01 PM
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A single wildcard Find/Replace can clean up all duplicated words (as well as duplicated multi-word strings) in a document. For example:
Find = (<*>?@)\1
Replace = \1
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