To create a custom dictionary of medical terms, I would like to remove all hyphenated words from a list of about 12,000 terms. I'm new to Word VBA and macros. Would this be possible to do?

If anyone has a macro like this, or could suggest an approach I could learn from, I would appreciate it.

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Is each word in its own paragraph or is there spaces between words? Assuming they are paragraphs, a search and replace would do it. You can record this as a macro if you wanted to.

Find: [a-zA-Z]{1,}-[a-zA-Z]{1,}^13
Replace: Nothing <- don't put anything in the replace box
Wildcards turned on

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

A morecomprehensive wildcard Find/Replace that accommodates non-breaking hyphens, em-dashes and en-dashes:
Find = <[! ]@[^~^+^=\-]*>
Replace = nothing

If the words are whole paragraphs, use:
Find = ^13[!^13]@[^~^+^=\-]*^13
Replace = ^p

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]