Hi Bobsomite,

You can use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:


Find = <[A-Z][a-z]@>
Replace = ^&
and the Find font format has the 'All Caps' option unchecked and the Replace font format has the 'Small Caps' option checked.

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That is the best damn thing I've learned all week. Eventually I got around to digging into the Microsoft Help, but what really helps is seeing your syntax. After a little tinkering with it, I was able to pare it down to words 3 letters or greater. Very cool, thanks again!

For that you could use:
Find = <[A-Z][a-z]{2,}>

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Wow!

You just saved me a couple of hours.

Thank you!!!!

Where can I learn more about the find wildcard feature? Specifically the coding like: <[A-Z][a-z]@>

Word wildcards are at this URL:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...005189433.aspx

Don't forget to click the More button and check 'use wildcards' .

Below is the string I use to find acronyms. It also finds acronyms that include digits-- the problem being that it also stops on plain old numbers. See if it does you any good.

[ETAOINSRHDLUCMFYWGPBVKXQJZ1234567890_-]{2,}

You should be able to achieve the same with:
[A-Z0-9_-]{2,}
or, if your acronyms always start with a letter:
[A-Z][A-Z0-9_-]{1,}
As for the numbers issue, if you mean it doesn't find complete numbers with thousands separators & decimal points, that's because neither of those is provided for in your Find expression. Problem is, though, that if you do so, it'll also pick up commas and periods.

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