Find any text inside single inverted commas

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Hello,

I'm sure this is easy if you know how but I want to find any words contained
inside single inverted commas, for example, 'test' but I don't want to find
text strings that contain two single inverted commas, for example, he's slow
but it's not his fault.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
You may have some problems depending on exactly waht sort of quotes you
have, but this ought to do it.

In Find and Replace
Check "Use Wildcards"
Find: <'*'>
 
Hi Tony,

Thanks for the response but this doesn't work for me. I am still able to use
'*' to find any two inverted commas and all the text in between but when I
put <> around it so that the Find box contains <'*'>, I get a message to say
that the search item was not found.

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Thanks,
MarkN


Tony Jollans said:
You may have some problems depending on exactly waht sort of quotes you
have, but this ought to do it.

In Find and Replace
Check "Use Wildcards"
Find: <'*'>
Click to expand...
 
Not sure what else to suggest - I just double checked and it works for me -
it does assume your quoted strings have space or punctuation before and
after but that would be normal. Can you give an example of something that
isn't found (with a little context).

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Enjoy,
Tony


MarkN said:
Hi Tony,

Thanks for the response but this doesn't work for me. I am still able to use
'*' to find any two inverted commas and all the text in between but when I
put <> around it so that the Find box contains <'*'>, I get a message to say
that the search item was not found.
Click to expand...
 
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