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Old 01-13-2016, 03:01 AM
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Robert:
Audioman probably wants to change strings like:
"apples, oranges, peaches"
to:
"apples, oranges and peaches"
not merely the literal "apples, oranges, peaches" string to:
"apples and oranges and peaches"
and to change other instances like:
"apples, oranges"
to:


"apples and oranges"
but your Find/Replace code won't do any of that.

It is also quite likely there will be many other commas that shouldn't be replaced - as in the one used in this sentence.

Audioman:
Although a macro could be written, the level of interactivity required would scarcely make it any more efficient than using a non-macro Find/Replace where you selectively choose whether to replace a given comma with ' and'.
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Old 01-13-2016, 06:02 AM
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You're right macropod. I was using apples, oranges, peaches as an example. The document will actually contain people's first names and, of course, the names will vary. Someone gave me a macro a couple of years ago and it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, shame on me, I need it again and I can't find it.
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