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Old 06-09-2014, 12:09 PM
Cayce Cayce is offline Mac OS X Office for Mac 2011
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Default Need help using WildCard Find & Replace

Hello, Forum;

I've got some massive documents to update and need to be able to change elements that fall into a pattern, while leaving text already in place untouched. For instance, I need to change the </p> tag in this statement:
Tuesday: (This text will be different each time) </p>
to
Tuesday: (Variable Text) <br />

In the Find What field I put:
Tuesday:*\</p\>
Which found all instances of
Tuesday: (Variable Text) </p>

But when I put this in the replace field:
Tuesday:*<br />
the (Variable Text) was replaced in each instance by the asterisk.

I need to identify the text string by the word "Tuesday" and the "</p>" tag, replace the "</p>" tag, but leave the variable text between the two intact. I can't seem to do it.

Thanks for any help.

Cayce
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