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Old 11-13-2012, 01:08 PM
Rabski Rabski is offline Odd search and replace query Windows 7 64bit Odd search and replace query Office 2010 64bit
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Hi guys and girls.



I have an odd thing I need to do.

Basically I have a massive text where the author has used 'quote 1' 'quote 2' 'quote 3' etc. The publisher needs "quote 1" "quote 2" etc, etc.

I can find everything with '*' and wildcard enables. However, I can't replace with "*", as that is what it gets replaced with, i.e. "*".

In other words, I need to replace a caharcter at the beginning and end, but leave the text inbetween unchanged, said text being different each time.

I've tried various \ escape strings in the replace, but it always either falls over or messes up.

Anyone know?

I'm sure it's possible!

Last edited by macropod; 11-13-2012 at 02:11 PM. Reason: Inapproriate expression deleted.
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