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Old 08-23-2012, 02:38 PM
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Greetings wonderful world of Word people who are far more patient than I,



I have pages, and pages (and PAGES) of words and their definitions. Basically a dictionary in a word file. The words are in blue, and the definitions follow in black. Here is an example:

accountant n. A skilled person, trained in accounting. One in charge of the financial accounts of a company.

What I am looking to do, is create a list of just the words, without the definitions. Is this possible with a macro of some sort? Or am I doomed to cut definitions until my eyes pop out of my head?
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You could do this with perhaps just one or two wildcard Find/Replace operations, where:
Find = *
Replace = 'nothing'
and you set the Find text's colour to 'Automatic' or 'Black' (ie the used colours that you don't want to keep).
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