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11-13-2011, 11:17 PM

macropod

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Hi 14spar15,

You could use a wildcard Find/Replace for a single 'Replace' operation, where:
Find = [!^13]{1,75}
Replace = ^&

and the find font option is set to 'Regular' and the replace font option is set to 'Bold'

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