Thread: Find and Replace "find what text"
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Old 09-01-2014, 08:20 PM
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You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = <[0-9]{4}>
Replace = (^&)
The < and > tell Word the number can't be part of a larger string (e.g. 5 digits), whilst the [0-9]{4} tells Word to find a 4-digit string. The Replace expression tells Word to insert ( and ) either side of the found content, which is indicated by the ^&.
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