A wildcard question

[Guest]

Hi everybody--
I've been having a bit of trouble with this, and I was hoping someone could
help me out. Does anyone here know if there's a way to find sentences that
contain a period, say for an abbreviation or decimal point, inside the
sentence? There is one space between sentences in my document, not two. The
only way I can think of so far is to manually go through everything, and for
a document that's over 100 pages long, that's not very efficient.
Any help would be great, thanks!
Jezzica85

 

[Jezebel]

You can use wildcards to find periods that are not followed by space or
paragraph mark, which will find the decimal points and might find the
abbreviation ones. With 'Use wildcards' checked, experiment with --

..[! ^013] period followed by anything except space or paragraph
..[0-9] period followed by a digit
[A-Z]. majuscule followed by digit (unusual for end of sentence,
more likely to be an abbreviation)

etc

 

[Graham Mayor]

While Jezebel has it covered. See
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm for background.

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