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Old 03-13-2013, 01:44 PM
cheech1981 cheech1981 is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2010 64bit
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Default Searching by Quotation Length

Hello everyone,

Is it possible in Microsoft Word to search for quoted text of a certain length?

I would like to search for any instances of text that falls between an opening and closing smart quotation mark in which the text totals 40 words or greater. (all quotation marks are formatted as smart quotes in the document)

The reason for doing this is because I have to locate all such quotes so that I can format them as block indented quotes. For now I am searching through and doing word counts of each quote but the document is about 400 pages so just curious if there is a way to expedite this, and it's a task I will have to do in the future as well.

Thank you in advance for any advice you might have!

I am currently on Word 2013, Windows 8.
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