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Old 05-29-2015, 01:24 AM
Robert2 Robert2 is offline Windows 8 Office 2007
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To be able to do this through Find/Replace, Word would need to have support for regex “negative lookbehind” (to be able to assert that what immediately precedes the current position in the string is not the exclusion text). Word has no such support.

Still, you might get by with the following wildcard search.

Find What: [!e]^32ACRONYM
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