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Need help using WildCard Find & Replace
Hello, Forum;
I've got some massive documents to update and need to be able to change elements that fall into a pattern, while leaving text already in place untouched. For instance, I need to change the </p> tag in this statement: Tuesday: (This text will be different each time) </p> to Tuesday: (Variable Text) <br /> In the Find What field I put: Tuesday:*\</p\> Which found all instances of Tuesday: (Variable Text) </p> But when I put this in the replace field: Tuesday:*<br /> the (Variable Text) was replaced in each instance by the asterisk. I need to identify the text string by the word "Tuesday" and the "</p>" tag, replace the "</p>" tag, but leave the variable text between the two intact. I can't seem to do it. Thanks for any help. Cayce |
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Try a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = (Tuesday:*)\</p\> Replace = \1<br />
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