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viensdansmavie

i write (car) (picture) in the find what box office 2007 and
i write \2 \1 in the replace with box but
it could not find anything
what is wrong
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you're searching for the text "car picture," Word should be finding it,
and this should work. Do you have "Use wildcards" checked?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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viensdansmavie

i try again and it become success but when words were close one another. my
words are different lines.
t.ex
my car is red.
picture is blue.
i must change them but i could not it in this way.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

What you might try is:

(car) (*) (picture)

\3 \2 \1

I would not have thought that this would not work if there is a line break
or paragraph break between the words, but it does seem to.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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