Alternation & Grouping (Pipe) not working in Word 2010?

[tinfanide]

Please see the attachment for the question or see below:
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animals cat dog mouse fish (15-16)
animals dog cat mouse fish (15-16)


Find what:


(cat)|(dog)

Replace with:
\2 \1
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Blue is the original and red is the expected.
The Find What returns that nothing is found.

[gmayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
There is no pipe in the string so searching for one is not going to find it.
Search instead for (cat) (dog)
Replace with
\2 \1

[tinfanide]

Thanks for your reference.

It seems that in VBA both "|" and "()" are supported but not in Find what and Replace with.