Microsoft Office Forums

Go Back   Microsoft Office Forums > >

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1  
Old 02-19-2014, 01:37 PM
Ulodesk Ulodesk is offline Replacing curly braces in a wildcard F&R Windows 7 64bit Replacing curly braces in a wildcard F&R Office 2013
Word 2013 Expert Cert
Replacing curly braces in a wildcard F&R
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Virginia
Posts: 872
Ulodesk is on a distinguished road
Default Replacing curly braces in a wildcard F&R


The other day, I had a text document, copied into Word from an ancient word-processing program (developed just as cuneiform was declining), in which words or phrases to be italicized in a some other conversion were enclosed in curly brackets, either {single} or {{double}}. While I finally discovered how to search for a bracket by using its ASCII code (Unicode didn't work), I was unable to craft syntax for both find and replace fields allowing the equivalent of the asterisk (any number of characters) to be used as a replacement for anything inside such brackets, so that I could, in a single-stroke, as it were, italicize all such instances and remove the brackets at the same time. I don't know if this is possible in F&R or would require a multi-step macro.

I did the job manually in this case but would love to know how to set this up so that I can be efficient next time. I studied Graham Mayor's and Greg Maxey's sites; perhaps the answer is there and I simply didn't grasp it.
Reply With Quote
 

Tags
curly brackets, find & replace, wild cards



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
curly quotes after em-dash or hard space btorrance Word 0 06-07-2013 07:39 AM
Replacing curly braces in a wildcard F&R Wildcard for selective deleting binar Word 1 01-10-2013 04:37 AM
Balky Curly Quotes JamesT Word 0 01-23-2010 05:36 PM
Wildcard search help. Kempston Word 0 11-13-2009 03:58 AM
Extract from String using Wildcard whousedmy Word 0 05-21-2009 01:35 AM

Other Forums: Access Forums

All times are GMT -7. The time now is 11:32 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Search Engine Optimisation provided by DragonByte SEO (Lite) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2025 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
MSOfficeForums.com is not affiliated with Microsoft