Thread: [Solved] Find and highlight all words ending in -ly
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Old 10-15-2012, 10:13 PM
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Did you check the 'use wildcards' option? The Find expression I posted will find every word ending in 'ly', including words like 'fly', 'ply' & 'sly'. If you wan't to exclude such 3-letter words, you could use:
Find = <[! ][! ]@ly>
That'll still find words like 'ally' & 'only', though. You can't really tell Word to find adverbs only.
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