Pls. Help: Search & Replace with wildcarts and re-formatting

[Guest]

Ladies / Gentleman

I am facing a hard issue with replacing soe dashes in front and after
multiple textpassages:
=========
Sample:
-anyword anyword anyword- plaintext)

should become:
anyword anyword anyword (re-formatted as style:H2 an NO "-" anymore
=========
Problem I got MANY passages within the document with other text before and
after
So how can reach that?

Any Idea?

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Frank,

The hyphens are always at the beginning and end of the paragraph?

¶
-anyword anyword anyword-¶
....¶

You can try Edit>Find, "Match wildcards":
Find what: (^13)\-([!^13]@)\-(^13)
Replace with: \1\2\3 ((and Format > Style > Heading 2))

The should only match those paras startng and ending with a hyphen.
Using [!^13]@ instead of the *-wildcard makes sure that the match stays
limited to one paragraph.
The "Replace with" re-inserts all the stuff except the hyphens (which are
not in any of the bracketed expressions).

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Guest]

Many Thanks

but this doe not work soooo well:
The original text:
==============================
-Building an Excel Invoice Application Using Visual Studio Tools for Office,
Version 2005
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/de...5_ta/html/OfficeVSTOBuildingExcelInvoices.asp

Read this article for a demonstration of an Excel invoice solution written
in Visual C# using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System,
Version 2005 Beta 1, and Visual Studio, Version 2005 Beta 1.
-Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 at Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=61e90c28-3840-4c89-9b19-2814a6a62aaf

Detailed overview of how Microsoft IT deployed and manages Microsoft Office
Live Communications Server 2005 to provide its employees with a real-time
communications and instant messaging solution.

==============================
the chpter after the hyperling also gets formatted with H2 style.
Any idea how to avoid this?

My Dream would be having it like this:
==============================
<H2>Building an Excel Invoice Application Using Visual Studio Tools for
Office, Version 2005</H2>
<empty line>
<hyperlink
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/de...5_ta/html/OfficeVSTOBuildingExcelInvoices.asp</hyperlink>
<empty line>
<normal>
Read this article for a demonstration of an Excel invoice solution written
in Visual C# using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System,
Version 2005 Beta 1, and Visual Studio, Version 2005 Beta 1.
</normal>
<empty line>
<empty line>
<H2>Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 at Microsoft</H2>
....
==============================
any idea?

 

[Guest]

Many Thanks

but this doe not work soooo well:
The original text:
==============================
-Building an Excel Invoice Application Using Visual Studio Tools for Office,
Version 2005
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/de...5_ta/html/OfficeVSTOBuildingExcelInvoices.asp

Read this article for a demonstration of an Excel invoice solution written
in Visual C# using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System,
Version 2005 Beta 1, and Visual Studio, Version 2005 Beta 1.
-Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 at Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=61e90c28-3840-4c89-9b19-2814a6a62aaf

Detailed overview of how Microsoft IT deployed and manages Microsoft Office
Live Communications Server 2005 to provide its employees with a real-time
communications and instant messaging solution.

==============================
the chpter after the hyperling also gets formatted with H2 style.
Any idea how to avoid this?

My Dream would be having it like this:
==============================
<H2>Building an Excel Invoice Application Using Visual Studio Tools for
Office, Version 2005</H2>
<empty line>
<hyperlink
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/de...5_ta/html/OfficeVSTOBuildingExcelInvoices.asp</hyperlink>
<empty line>
<normal>
Read this article for a demonstration of an Excel invoice solution written
in Visual C# using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System,
Version 2005 Beta 1, and Visual Studio, Version 2005 Beta 1.
</normal>
<empty line>
<empty line>
<H2>Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 at Microsoft</H2>
....
==============================
any idea?

 

[Guest]

ok - now i understood the string...

MANY MANY MANY Thanks!!!

-([!^13]@)\-(^13) to search
replaced by \1\2 and format options

 

[Klaus Linke]

It works now? Great!!

Wasn't too sure where the ¶ marks are in your sample...

Regards,
Klaus