How to select the words before a special charater all at once.

[Guest]

I have a movie scripts that i would like to have all the names bolded. The
names are all line up on the left before a ":". I am trying to bold all these
names. Since these names are different words, how Word can get this task
done? I tried wild cards using <"*:"> but was unsscussuful. I always tried
VBA using unit select statement, also have no luck. Could anyone share some
light on this?

 

[Anne Troy]

Try recording this macro....
Do a find for the colon.
Hit Shift+Home.
Hit Bold.
Then figure out how to do that through all instances... (I'm no coder.)

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[Tony Jollans]

It depends a little on exactly how you have your document formatted.

But a good candidate for a wildcard find string would be "<[!^13:]{1,}:" -
left angle bracket, left square bracket, exclamation mark, caret, one,
three, colon, right square bracket, left brace, one, comma, right brace,
colon

 

[Graham Mayor]

Replace with ^& format Bold
See also http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

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It depends a little on exactly how you have your document formatted.

But a good candidate for a wildcard find string would be
"<[!^13:]{1,}:" - left angle bracket, left square bracket,
exclamation mark, caret, one, three, colon, right square bracket,
left brace, one, comma, right brace, colon

I have a movie scripts that i would like to have all the names
bolded. The names are all line up on the left before a ":". I am
trying to bold all these names. Since these names are different
words, how Word can get this task done? I tried wild cards using
<"*:"> but was unsscussuful. I always tried VBA using unit select
statement, also have no luck. Could anyone share some light on this?