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Old 05-02-2016, 02:47 PM
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Unless the words you want to search for are amenable to grouping in a single wildcard expression, you'll have to Find each of them separately. For example, in another forum, someone wanted to be able to find the words Attachment, Figure, Table & Paragraph followed by a number, period, then another number. The following wildcard Find expression does that:
<[AFTP][ait][bgrt][autl][! ]@ [0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}

You cannot use expressions like 'cat AND dog AND ferret' to find cat, dog or ferret - The Find dialogue (quite reasonably) regards AND as a word. If you have large lists of words to process, that can be done by having them in another document or in an Excel workbook. For an example of the former approach, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post72330
For an example of the latter approach, which also processes all documents in a folder, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...html#post34254
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