Hello I would like to search my doc for a site link (Alt+F9 enabled to see hyperlinks) and fix a bunch of broken links.
sample links:
HYPERLINK "https://mysite/" \l "Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/RandomArticle1.htm"
HYPERLINK "https://mysite/" \l "Folder1/Folder2/Folder3/Folder4/RandomArticle2.htm"
HYPERLINK "https://mysite/" \l "Folder5/Folder7/RandomArticle3.htm"

Desired output:
HYPERLINK "https://mysite/" \l "NewFolder/RandomArticle1.htm"
HYPERLINK "https://mysite/" \l "NewFolder/RandomArticle2.htm"
HYPERLINK "https://mysite/" \l "NewFolder/RandomArticle3.htm"

I have tried Regex style in the Wildcard Find Replace
Find What:
("https://mysite/" \\l ").*(?=/*=)*/(.*\.htm")


Replace With:
\1/NewFolder/\2
Close to what I want (works in regex) but not in word, my hunch is word does not have look ahead (?=/*=)
Long story short I want to clear out data between a point and the last forward slash in the row, how is that done in Word find replace?

You can use RegEx in Word, but only via a macro that calls a RegEx library. Word's wildcard options are akin to a sub-set of RegEx but even that sub-set doesn't have a 1:1 correspondence with RegEx.

As for what you're trying to do, you could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = (HYPERLINK *\\l )*([!/]@")
Replace = \1^34NewFolder/\2

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Paul Edstein
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Thank you Paul,
This worked!

On a separate note, what is the regex macro called?

Hello macropod,
Oh shoot, I swear this worked this morning but now it is placing the New folder at the end. Maybe I need to know more about how you did this, what is the ^34 doing? As far as I can tell it is adding " is that correct? Then what on earth is placing the text and the " after the second captured area?

oh wow, I figured it out, if track changes is on it does that.

Macros are called whatever you want to name them. A RegeEx macro is simply one that uses the RegEx library. See, for example:
http://dotnetslackers.com/Community/...with-Word.aspx
Ironically, the code in that link is for finding upper-case words, developed because the writer thought it couldn't be done using wildcards, which it can, see:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...tml#post106745

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]