In the Find&Replace dialog, click the More button. Put a check in the box
"Use wildcards". Then enter the rest of the find and replace stuff. If
you're recording when you click the Replace All button, the resulting macro
will contain the .MatchWildcards = True line. The backslashes, braces, and
brackets in the .Text line have special meanings when wildcards are turned
on -- see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...gWildcards.htm as Graham
told you.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word
feagin wrote:
> Hi, I am not clear on how one puts wildcards into the find
> dialog box, as in the illustration below. Also, how do I
> do all this just by recording? What do you do, for
> example, to set the 'true' criterion? Do I need to learn
> VBA to do this?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Many thanks, great tips. The text to be deleted takes this
>> form: (1), (50), (34), and so forth. JF
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> This macro will do it. I created it by recording.
>>>
>>> Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
>>> Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
>>> With Selection.Find
>>> .Text = "\([0-9]{1,2}\)"
>>> .Replacement.Text = ""
>>> .Forward = True
>>> .Wrap = wdFindContinue
>>> .MatchWildcards = True
>>> End With
>>> Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
>>>
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>> .
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