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Issue with wildcard search
I have a document in which some sentences end with two periods, some with one. I need to standardize on two periods.
I could do a simple S/R (search for period space and replace with period space space), unfortunately, it's a long document and I'll get lots of false positives. For example, there will be a number of instances of "U.S. XYZ," which won't need the second period. I had created a wildcard search that worked fine in sample text. Search for ". ([A-Z]) Replace with ". \1" But in the actual document, the replacement was basically "\1 ." It appears because I have "Track Changes" on, Word burps. Is here a workaround? I could turn off "Track Changes" but it would be better to leave it on. mt P.S. If I get this to work, the search string could be changed to: ([!A-Z]). ([A-Z]) Which should prevent any period following a capital letter (as in U.S.) |
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