Monthly Archives: April 2001

Wildcards in the Real World

I hope you’ve enjoyed the wildcard “tutorial” articles in Editorium Update over the past few weeks. If you haven’t read them, I’d recommend that you do so in order to understand this week’s article. You can review the whole series here, starting with the March 20, 2001, issue: http://www.editorium.com/euindex.htm/ This week I thought you might […]

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Using the "Find What Expression" Wildcard

For the past few weeks we’ve been talking about using wildcards to find and replace text in Microsoft Word. Last week I introduced the “Find What Expression” wildcard (n) and promised to show you how to use it to move things around. Let’s say you’ve got a list of authors, like this: Emily Dickinson Ezra […]

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Wildcard Grouping

For the past few weeks we’ve been talking about using wildcards to find and replace text in Microsoft Word. This week we’ll discuss wildcard grouping, which is simply a way of telling Word that you want certain wildcards to be used together as a unit. Continuing with our example from last week, let’s say that […]

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Wildcard Ranges

Last week we discussed using wildcard combinations to find text in a Microsoft Word document. You can read last week’s newsletter here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1706069286 This week we’ll talk about wildcard ranges, which you’ll probably use a lot. Wildcard ranges are fairly simple. You just use the [-] wildcard to tell Microsoft Word what to find. Let’s […]

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