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05-06-2018, 05:49 PM

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Windows 7 64bit Wildcard replace any string in context with a specified string

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Originally Posted by Guessed

If this is a search and replace activity, you don't NEED to exclude the correct word since you would be replacing it with itself.
Find: EVENING NEWS ???? WALTER
Replace with: EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER

The advantage of using * instead of ???? is that the OCR process may have created more or fewer than 4 characters instead of WITH. The disadvantage, is that is may make false matches (e.g. EVENING NEWS WITHOUT WALTER)

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