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Subject:Re: Sophisticated searches in WORD From:"Bergerson, Carl A" <Carl -dot- Bergerson -at- UNISYS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Mar 1998 08:17:00 -0600
In the Find What box type
[!A-Za-z0-9 ]
and then select Use Pattern Matching.
I tested it on Word 7, and it should work with Word 6 and Word 8 as
well.
Carl Bergerson
Mission Viejo
Product Information
carl -dot- bergerson -at- unisys -dot- com
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> Hi everyone,
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> We have a small problem.
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> We want to find all the characters that are not letters, not digits
> and are not spaces using the FIND command in WORD97.
>
> Does anyone know what string to input in the Find what textbox?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Razia.
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