Thread: Finding a word or phrase in a fiction book's prose without searching characters’ dialogue
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Old 10-23-2015, 01:55 PM
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Assuming your dialogue uses smart quotes, you could exclude text in dialogues by coding a wildcard Find/Replace like:
Find = (^0148[!^0147]@)text to find
Replace = \1replacement text

It is also possible, to exclude italics, by setting the font parameters for the Find.
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