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05-12-2019, 01:34 AM

Paul Cardin Paul Cardin is offline

Windows 10 Using wildcards to highlight certain text

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Quote:

Originally Posted by macropod

And, since it might be any word, not just 'inaudible', you might use a wildcard Find/Replace like:
Find =\[<*> \[[0-9]@:[0-9]@\]\]
Replace = ^&

Similar to the last one, with Wildcards check box checked / not checked, pressing Replace All gets: "All done. We made no replacements".

Find Next gets: "No results found".

But characters

Did I stumble across a problem that has no solution?!

thanks,
Paul

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