How to shorten English words of specific length by macro?

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How to shorten English words of specific length by macro?

10-16-2022, 05:39 AM

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Windows 10 How to shorten English words of specific length by macro?

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You do not need a macro for this. All you need is a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = <([A-Za-z]{2})[A-Za-z]@([A-Za-z])>
Replace = \1\2

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