Removing Dupicate Words in MS Word 2004

[Guest]

I have created a business list of close to 5000 names from different sources.
I am afraid I have copied the same name more than once to my list. How can I
remove any duplicate names on the list in MS Word? I am using MS Word 2004 MAC

 

[Graham Mayor]

Sort the list into alphabetical order then use the method shown at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm to remove the duplicates.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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[Guest]

I appreciate your assitance, however following your links instruction got me
more confused. It didn't seem to answer my question.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If your list is a Word document comprising one 'name' per paragraph, then
you can use Table > Sort to sort the paragraphs into alphabetical order.
Then from the examples shown on the linked page use the replace function
with the wildcard option set to replace

(*^13)@
with
\1
to remove duplicate paragraphs from the sorted list.

If your list comprises multiple paragraphs for each entry, then you will
have to convert the list to a comma delimited file first (see
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels_into_mail_merge.htm )


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