Find a replace a whole paragraph

[Newzad Hirori]

Dear all,

Is there a way to find and replace a whole paragraph in Word? My document
consists of many paragraphs like these:

#01 article
#02 author
#03 source.

What I want is to delete all occurrences of #02 in the document.

- Newzad

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Newzad,

Is there a way to find and replace a whole paragraph in Word? My document
consists of many paragraphs like these:

#01 article
#02 author
#03 source.

What I want is to delete all occurrences of #02 in the document.

Yes, you should be able to do this

1. Display the Edit/Replace dialog box

2. Click the "More" button and activate "Wildcards"

3. Type this in the Find what field: \#02*^013

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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