Hi all,

I am trying to find a way to search for similar words cited in the same passage / paragraph of text. I am doing that so I can build a collection of passages citing works of the same authors. The idea is to be able to find passages that contain two or more specific words / expressions, which could be somehow far apart.



in my pipe dream, I would have one operator searching for (by way of example):

"Tolstoy" and "War and Peace" and "first edition"

and then another searching for

"Tolstoy" and "Anna Karenina" and "second edition"

Of course, I could search for one and refine the search later, but there are quite a few similar instances and, most importantly, I have so many cases that this could be very complicated. Moreover, I would like to be able to use the paragraph-exporting macro that macropod so kindly and cleverly created to do the bulk of the work.

I have no idea if this is possible, and I cannot seem to be able to understand whether there is some wildcard syntax that would make it so. If, however, this is possible, my life will be immensely easier.

Thanks a lot!