Any Find Replace using wildcard experts around?

[richiwatts]

Hi,

I am searching sentences that start with <ps and end in a paragraph (hard return) using wildcards:

\<ps*^013

The above works really well, however, I have a problem.

Out of these sentences I don't want it to find any sentence that has // in it.

How would I search the above but hope over any sentence that has // in it?

Cheers Rich

 

[xlhelp]

I know jokers are wild, but that's about all.

Have you tried

[!\\] ?

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[xlhelp]

BTW,

you can learn a lot at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

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[richiwatts]

That didn't work

 

[xlhelp]

Unfortunately, that's all I know.

[!(char)] excludes those characters.

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[richiwatts]

/ is part of the wildcard characters. To search for them you have to put \ before them but [!\/\/\doesn't work either.

Thanks anyway

Rich

 

[fumei]

Try:

(\<ps)*([!//])^013

Using wildcards "<" means start of word, so if you want to actually include the "<" of "<ps", you need the \.

The parenthesis is what makes the difference...or it does for me.

Gerry

 

[richiwatts]

Nope,

It still highlights sentences with // in them

Rich

 

[fumei]

What version are you using? Because that totally works for me. It finds all the paragraphs starting with <ps EXCEPT if the paragraph has // in it.

Hmmmmmm.

Gerry

 

[richiwatts]

Yes, but I only want to find the paragraph that DO NOT have // in them

word 2003

Rich

 

[fumei]

Excuse me, but from your original post...

Out of these sentences I don't want it to find any sentence that has // in it.

So now you are changing what you want to find?

Please clarify, and be specific.

Gerry
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[richiwatts]

I have always said that I don't want the sentences to have // in them

???

Rich