Need RULE to search for Text in Body with varying # of spaces

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Kenneth Parker

Hi there,

I have Outlook 2002 and have been using the outlook rule condition:
"With specific words in the body"

However the "Specific words" I'm looking for might contain varying number of
spaces:

EX:
"some text: some more text"
"some text: some more text"

Is there a wildcard or something to match multiple spaces?


--Thanks very much,
Kenneth
 
Kenneth Parker said:
I have Outlook 2002 and have been using the outlook rule condition:
"With specific words in the body"

However the "Specific words" I'm looking for might contain varying
number of spaces:

EX:
"some text: some more text"
"some text: some more text"

Is there a wildcard or something to match multiple spaces?

This is what I think and it appears to be true for me.

One space and multiple spaces are all the same. In fact, punctuation and
spaces are equivalent, as are upper and lower case. So, your above examples
will both match "some text some more text", as would "Some
TexT***sOme--MoRE#$%&tEXt"

That said, I've been trying to test it to make sure, but have not had any
success, yet. It should be easy to test, though, using Yahoo! or Hotmail.
Perhaps an MVP can be more definitive.
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Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
Hi there,

I have Outlook 2002 and have been using the outlook rule condition:
"With specific words in the body"

However the "Specific words" I'm looking for might contain varying number of
spaces:

EX:
"some text: some more text"
"some text: some more text"

Is there a wildcard or something to match multiple spaces?


--Thanks very much,
Kenneth
 

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