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1. #Microsoft word find and replace wildcard install
2. #Microsoft word find and replace wildcard software

I put mine in my Word > STARTUP folder, which is where I keep my macros.dotm file. Once you’ve created your table, save it to a location that your macro can pick it up from easily - I suggest somewhere on your local drive, not a network location (unless you intend sharing it with others). fish, indiv [for ‘individual’ or ‘individuals’). lux, nm) or a word that often follows a number in the documents I work on (e.g.

In the example below, I’ve set up routines for replacing a standard space between a number and a month of the year with a non-breaking space (^s) between those two elements, as well as replacing a standard space between a number and a unit of measure (e.g. Testing is crucial to make sure you don’t replace something you shouldn’t. These find/replace routines will all be done as ‘replace all’, so you will NOT have the opportunity to accept some and reject others. You should test each wildcard find/replace routine on a document BEFORE you add it to the list, just to make sure it works correctly and doesn’t mess up anything else. Use the same syntax as you would for a wildcard find/replace. Use one row for each find/replace routine. The first stage in getting this to work is to create a 2-column table in Word, listing what you want to find in the left column and what you want to replace it with in the right column. Step 1: Create a table of your wildcard find/replace routines I won’t cover either of those things in this post.

#Microsoft word find and replace wildcard software

UPDATE: PerfectIt software (v3 onwards ) can be customized to include wildcard find/replace routines too, without you having to know anything about macros.īefore doing these steps, you need to be familiar with:

#Microsoft word find and replace wildcard install

However, I’m not allowed to install that software on my work PC (long story…), so I wanted to figure out a way to emulate what an EditTools script does by creating a macro to achieve the same end. NOTE: EditTools software ( ) has a neat interface for setting up your wildcard find and replace routines, along with a facility to set up a script to run them all, and I use that on my own PC. I didn’t write the macro - that honor goes to Microsoft Word MVPs Graham Mayor who wrote the initial macro, and Doug Robbins who helped me tweak it to do what I wanted it to do. The routines I commonly use already save me time, but now I’ve got one macro that runs them all at once - currently 110 of them that are just for replacing an ordinary space with a non-breaking space! After some digging around, I’ve found a way to save myself hours of running separate find and replace routines using wildcards in Microsoft Word.