Using wildcards to highlight certain text

Paul Cardin · #1 05-12-2019, 03:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macropod

That is NOT what you described in post #1, which was:

Your [inaudible 23:45] lacks the square brackets around the time!

Try a wildcard Find/Replace like:
Find =\[<*> [0-9]@:[0-9]@\]
Replace = ^&

Just discovered, when I press Find Next, it highlights in grey perfectly the limits of each example including all varied texts, as follows:

[inaudible 04:22]

[in England 05:34]

[inaudible 06:07]

[voices overlap 07:21]

...and so on.

macropod · #2 05-12-2019, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Cardin

Just discovered, when I press Find Next, it highlights in grey perfectly the limits of each example including all varied texts, as follows:

[inaudible 04:22]

[in England 05:34]

[inaudible 06:07]

[voices overlap 07:21]

...and so on.

In which case, unless you messed up the Replace part and/or the default highlighting, they'd all be highlighted.

NaomiQld · #3 05-12-2022, 03:29 AM

For anyone else curious about this - as I was - I have just worked out an easy way to do this. I have just finished a massive transcript and also wanted to highlight the timestamps, e.g. "The quick brown fox [0:04:10] lazy dog, but I only want the numbers highlighted. This is how I did it -
A simple Search and Replace:

Find: ^#:^#^#:^#^#
Replace with ^&
Format: Highlight

And then for extra efficiency, I've made it a macro to run at the end of of my document.

macropod · #4 05-12-2022, 04:56 PM

That was already described in post #4...

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