Thread: [Solved] Tricky wildcard search
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Old 03-14-2014, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by eNGiNe View Post
Any chance of restricting the search/replace to a table cell style?
No, because table styles don't apply to the table content, which will still be in the Normal Style, for example. Table Styles only apply to the table's shading/borders, etc.

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Originally Posted by NobodysPerfect View Post
I don't see how a style could help? The problem still remains the same: the search has to find the part of the string after "*" until the end of the cell and replace/delete it with "*". And this has to happen within all tables/cells within the doc.

Would be great if there were a solution without VBA, but ...
This can only be done with VBA.
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