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Old 06-01-2021, 02:12 PM
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As per your other thread, a single wildcard Find/Replace could be used to remove all repeated '.' characters from a document, leaving just one '.' in their place. For example:


Find = [.]{2,}
Replace = .
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Hi,

With reply to previous post am attaching a sample word document having .....

i want to remove the complete dots, if more than one dot (" . ") exists before and after a descriptions in a document.

If there is only one " . " it should be remains fixed and no need to change.

doc type : docx & rtf

PFA.

Is it possible through macro to automate this task...

Please do the needful and thanks in advance.
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