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Old 10-26-2020, 11:35 AM
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As the title says, I have a large collection of documents containing text, tables, bulleted lists and figures. The figures have the layout "top and bottom" or "square" and have a caption that's grouped to each figure.

I would like to delete all the text in the document, leaving only the figures (with accompanying captions). How can I do that in an automated way?

Ideally I'd like the figures to end up on different pages (not all on top of each other).



I wouldn't mind using macros if necessary.
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You should be able to delete all text with a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = [!\/]{1,}
Replace = ^12

Any tables will remain, but will have no text. Provided your images aren't anchored to the same locations, they'll be placed on separate pages.
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Hi Paul,

When I tried the find and replace with default options it made 0 replacements and the document remained unchanged.

When I tried again with wildcard search turned on it resulted in an error - "the find what text contains a pattern match expression which is not valid"

Could you explain how the pattern works so that maybe I could tailor it to my document?

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When I tried again with wildcard search turned on it resulted in an error - "the find what text contains a pattern match expression which is not valid"
Evidently, then, you're using a system with non-English regional settings. In that case, use:
Find = [!\/]{1;}
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