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Using wildcards to highlight certain text

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05-12-2019, 01:55 AM

macropod

Windows 7 64bit Using wildcards to highlight certain text

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

Quote:

instances of [word [timestamp]] in a document, e.g. [inaudible [12:34]]

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

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

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