'fraid that will require a macro.
Find and Replace uses a unique form of regular expression which does not
allow looking for zero or more occurrences of something so it is not
possible in a single Find for, say, "a" to identify bith "apple" and
"banana". For example ...
A Find pattern of <q[a-pr-z]{1,}will find whole (lower case) words beginning
with "q"
A Find pattern of <[b-z]{1,}a*> will find lower case words with an "a"
anywhere except the beginning
You will need to expand the patterns a bit to cope with mixed case.
--
Enjoy,
Tony
"Josh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is it possible, then, to select a whole word when finding/replacing (i.e.,
> searching for "a" resulting in the whole word "apple" being selected)?
Would
> this require a macro?
>
> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>
> > No! The whole word must be selected.
> >
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> > Tony Jollans wrote:
> > > Yes - use a Character Style.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Josh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:A7C8AE9C-9E13-4653-9D68-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >> Is it possible to limit style changes to the word in which the
> > >> cursor is placed, rather than the entire sentence/paragraph without
> > >> selecting the entire word? (e.g., if I place the cursor after the
> > >> letter "n" in the word "entire" can I change the style of only this
> > >> word instead of this entire paragraph?)
> >
> >
> >
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