How to shorten English words of specific length by macro?

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10-16-2022, 08:43 AM

Emby

Windows 7 32bit How to shorten English words of specific length by macro?

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Originally Posted by macropod

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

Thanks macropod for the reply. Am I missing any steps? There are always no search results so that I cannot convert the attached file 1 (Before.docx) to attached file 2 (After.docx). Would you mind helping me?

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	Before.docx (19.0 KB, 5 views)
	After.docx (19.2 KB, 5 views)

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