See if this works for you:
0. Save the document before trying this.
1. From the menu, choose Edit - Replace.
2. Find what:<[A-z]@>-<[A-z]@>
3. Replace with:[leave empty, but press Ctrl+B to assign bold formatting]
4. Click the Use Wildcards checkbox.
5. Click Find Next to verify that it does indeed find the hypenated pairs
you're looking for; once you're sure it does, click Replace All.
Note: if this misfires and assigns bold to the wrong things, you should be
able to press Ctrl+Z to undo the changes. If there are too many changes,
however, you have the saved copy of the document as a fallback.
Explanation:
<: Match beginning of word
[A-z]@: match any number of alphabetic characters from a through Z
(lowercase a through uppercase Z)
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Steved said:
Hello from steved
Kashani-Redeno
Kings Theatre-Matins
Al Akbar-Nominee
You will notice "-" in the above
My question Can I use the dash to find then bold the leftside and the the
rightside.
Thankyou.
