Limiting find to two words froggfeathers 12/27/2008 6:13:01 PM I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't help me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed directly by *ing? Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it with the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I have in a document. Thanks in advance!

Re: Limiting find to two words "JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules[ at ]hotnospammail.com> 12/27/2008 8:32:26 PM Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing. There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how many times it "replaced" it. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "froggfeathers" <froggfeathers[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8030496E-DA47-4EDD-8213-DD8B4FA22C35[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending > with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't > help > me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed > directly by *ing? > > Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it > with > the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I > have > in a document. > > Thanks in advance!

Re: Limiting find to two words "Klaus Linke" <info[ at ]fotosatz-kaufmann.de> 12/27/2008 9:05:05 PM In Edit > Find, you can also check the box for "Match wildcards" and then use Find what: <[!^32][ at ]^32[!^32][ at ]ing> Replace with: ^& (and then click "Replace all"). The Find expression won't just match verbs though, but will also find "mean something" and any other two words where the second ends with "ing"! ^32 is the code for a space. You could also type in a space instead. [!^32][ at ] or [! ][ at ] matches a bunch of characters that are not spaces. < matches the start of a word, > the end. Regards, Klaus "JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules[ at ]hotnospammail.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing. > > There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and > replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how > many times it "replaced" it. > > -- > > JoAnn Paules > MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" > > > > "froggfeathers" <froggfeathers[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8030496E-DA47-4EDD-8213-DD8B4FA22C35[ at ]microsoft.com... >>I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending >> with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't >> help >> me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed >> directly by *ing? >> >> Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it >> with >> the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I >> have >> in a document. >> >> Thanks in advance! >

Re: Limiting find to two words froggfeathers 12/30/2008 3:23:00 AM "JoAnn Paules" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Do you mean something like "dog walking:? If so, try looking for dog *ing. I am looking for was *ing. The problem is that it won't just pickup two words. It will pick up a whole paragraph from the time it sees the word was until (three sentences later) it finds an *ing word. > > There is no real code needed to count the number of times. Do a find and > replace with the word in both places. Replace all - it will tell you how > many times it "replaced" it. If I do this, will word maintain the capitals and non-caps? Thanks for the reply. > > -- > > JoAnn Paules > MVP Microsoft [Publisher] > Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" > > > > "froggfeathers" <froggfeathers[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8030496E-DA47-4EDD-8213-DD8B4FA22C35[ at ]microsoft.com... > >I need to find all occurrences of the word was followed by any word ending > > with ing. When I find (was *ing) I get long blocks of text that don't > > help > > me. Can I limit this search to only two words, the word was followed > > directly by *ing? > > > > Also, while I am at it, what is the code to find a word and replace it > > with > > the same word so I can get a count of how many occurrences of a word I > > have > > in a document. > > > > Thanks in advance! > >

Re: Limiting find to two words froggfeathers 12/30/2008 3:26:03 AM I can work with that. I didn't think to put in the space. Thanks so much. Frogg "Klaus Linke" wrote: [Quoted Text] > In Edit > Find, you can also check the box for "Match wildcards" and then > use > Find what: <[!^32][ at ]^32[!^32][ at ]ing> > Replace with: ^& > (and then click "Replace all"). > > The Find expression won't just match verbs though, but will also find "mean > something" and any other two words where the second ends with "ing"! > > ^32 is the code for a space. You could also type in a space instead. > [!^32][ at ] or [! ][ at ] matches a bunch of characters that are not spaces. > < matches the start of a word, > the end.