Want I'm wanting to do probably isn't possible, but I'll give it a shot if there's a chance it could save me some time. Long story short, I have near a dozen 50 page documents of just plain text. Parts of the text are all in caps, parts in quotes and other just regular. I only want the text that are in caps and quotes, but not the other. I've tried using "find/replace" to remove many repeated sections of the text, but it's barely taken much of the chunk.

Is there a way I can ask a tool in word to identify only the all caps and quoted text and remove everything else from the document? If not, thanks anyway and I'll be doing this with the delete key one letter at a time.

Since you mention "one letter at a time", does this mean you want:

YRFdfcg fgtTTYY BlaHH

to be

YRF TTYY BHH

that is, keeping the caps and removong everything else.

Please clarify, and if possible post a sample of what you are talking about.

This is what are in my documents:

BALDHILD: Old bald "bold brave" and hild "battle" "bold battle"
BALTHILD: of Old Baldhild "bold battle"
BATHYLLE: Old Balthild "bold battle"
BERDINE: Contracted Bernardine "bold as a bear"
BERNÁDETT: Hungarian Bernát "bold as a bear"
BERNADETTE: Contracted Bernardette "bold as a bear"
BERNADINE: Contracted Bernardine "bold as a bear"
BERNARDE: Bernard "bold as a bear"

And all I want is to keep the text in all-caps and text within the quotes, like this:

BALDHILD: "bold brave" "battle" "bold battle"
BALTHILD: "bold battle"
BATHYLLE: "bold battle"
BERDINE: "bold as a bear"
BERNÁDETT: "bold as a bear"
BERNADETTE: "bold as a bear"
BERNADINE: "bold as a bear"
BERNARDE: "bold as a bear"

Is there a way to get rid of everything except what is in all-caps and text within quotes other than by deleting one letter at a time?

Or, a way for word to identify and highlight all-caps text and text in quote for me to do a simple copy and past in seperate document, avoiding having to delete everything else if it is not possible.

I would do this in a text editor myself, but I'll wait for someone to explain how to do it with wildcards; that way I'll learn something myself!

Still waiting … <g> Another, multi-tool option is to:

1. copy/paste into a text editor
2. use search/replace to convert selected spaces into tabs
3. paste the tabbed text into a spreadsheet
4. delete the columns you don't want
5. copy/paste special the results back into Word

Easier than it sounds, but wildcards would still be the elegant solution for the power user.