Monthly Archives: March 2001

Last week we discussed the basics of using wildcards 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=1705963026 This week we’ll talk about how to combine wildcards, which will let you get pretty fancy about the stuff you want to find. Basically, you just need to know that […]

Subscriber Allene Goforth (agoforth@aros.net) wrote: “I use your ‘Searching with Microsoft Word’s Built-In Codes’ list all the time, but Word’s restrictions on what codes can be used in the ‘Replace with’ box are a pain. I’d love to see an issue of Editorium Update that deals with wildcard searching.” Thanks for the suggestion, Allene. Here […]

Last week I explained how to use Word’s Rand feature to create sample text (“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”) that you can use for various purposes. You can read last week’s newsletter here: http://www.topica.com/lists/editorium/read/message.html?mid=1705763701 I neglected to mention that for the Rand feature to work, “Replace text as you type” must […]

Working in Microsoft Word, I often need some “junk” text to play around with, for various reasons: * I’m designing a document and don’t want to get bogged down in what the text actually says. * I’m creating a template with various paragraph styles and need to see what they will look like. * I’m […]