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girbnef
girbnef

Reputation: 17

Search for text in Word Endnotes

Hello: I am trying to perform either a regular search or wildcard search in Word, specifically in the Endnotes. Here is what I am searching for: [Endnote Reference][space][text....][:]

Here is an example of what the endnote might look like: 12 Text in my endnote ending with a colon: More text but not what I want.

So what I want to do is select all the text (plus colon) following the Endnote Reference + space (i.e., Text in my endnote ending with a colon:) and add bold/italics. I've tried using the advance search where I search for: ^e^?: --> doesn't work (I'd like to make the "any character" a bunch of characters until the : is reached) Wildcard search does not allow the use of ^e so I tried: *L --> that gives way too much and then also doesn't work.

Any feedback is much appreciated. I could accomplish this in Perl, but not in Word. thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 243

Answers (1)

macropod
macropod

Reputation: 13515

You don't need Regex for this. All you need is a wildcard Find, where:

Find = ^2 [!^13]@:

Using VBA for what you're trying to do:

Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdEndnotesStory)
  With .Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Text = "^2 [!^13]@:"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Format = False
    .Wrap = wdFindStop
    .MatchWildcards = True
  End With
  Do While .Find.Execute
    .Start = .Endnotes(1).Range.Start
    .Style = "MyBoldItalicCharacterStyle"
    .Collapse wdCollapseEnd
  Loop
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Upvotes: 1

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