Greetings,



I have researched this at length and found no answer.

I have a document with numerous "title" lines, each of which begins with a (§) symbol.

Example:

§ 1. Frogs that jump backwards

Except for the leading symbol (§) that begins each, these "title" lines have no relationship to each other.

I desire to run a wildcard search-replacement so that each "title" line appears in bold text.

Based on research, I have tried this:

Find what: ^13\§ *^13
Replace with: \1 ((bold))

Based on Example 6 at this URL (http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/usingwildcards.htm), I believed that the above should have worked.

It did not.

Instead, it returned the message "The Replace With text contains a group number which is out of range".

Thanks for your time and kind assistance.

Your wildcard Find/Replace would need to be either:
Find what: ^13\§ *^13
Replace with: ^& ((bold))
or:
Find what: (^13\§ *^13)
Replace with: \1 ((bold))

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Paul Edstein
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Time for a title style, perhaps?

Thanks for your input.

In both cases suggested by macropod, I obtained these results:

§ 1. Frogs that jump backwards

-- was replaced with --

((bold))

Perhaps I missed something. I will explore further.


I did this:

Find what: ^13\§ *^13
In the Replace with box, I selected Ctrl+B, with no other entry.

Not the most "techie" resolution, perhaps, but it worked.

Certainly I would have considered a title style, but I did not create the content.

My apologies for cross-posting; I did not realize these sites were associated directly.

Thanks again.

You're supposed to set the Replacement font property to bold - not to include the literal text! I assumed you knew as much given you had ((bold)) as a replacement criterion in your first post...

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I did not; I do now!

I am not a reg ex novice, but I am no expert, either. I spent a half hour searching for meaning to the expression "/1 ((bold))" in efforts to sort out why it was not working.

It is interesting that -- in an area where attention to the literal is paramount -- this was not something to be taken literally.

Thanks for your follow-up. I much appreciate it.