How to find and delete duplicate words in doc

cinvest · #1 09-29-2014, 11:26 AM

I am trying to figure out how to delete all duplicate words in a document in one swoop. Any way?

macropod · #2 09-29-2014, 08:34 PM

You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = (<*>)?\1
Replace = \1
Note: This assumes there is always a single character separating the repeated words and that they're of the same case.

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