Hello!

Can you help me to solve the following problem.

I need a wildcard that will help me to find in the document both "Austrian trading company" and "Austrian big trading company"

The key words are "Austrian" and "Company" and I need to find any expression which contains up to 5 words between them.

I Know how to do it with one word - "Austrian ([A-z]@>[ ])company"



Is it possible to solve my problem?

Thank you a lot!

Once you're dealing with a variable number of words, the best you can do is use something like:
Austrian * company
or
Austrian (*) company
but that might include just one word or dozens. Other wildcards could be used to exclude ranges that include punctuation and the like, so as to reduce the likelihood of false matches, but the matches would still need checking.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]