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Ahmed Laoun
Ahmed Laoun

Reputation: 113

How to search for exact match for non-word string in MS office word?

for example, I have to search for "2/2" and I get these results:

2/2 good result

11/2/2022 bad result

when I use Advance search in MS -word the "find the whole word" is disabled because my search contains special characters. also, I tried wildcard search but I didn't know how to construct a good search string for that is there a way to find an exact match for non-word search?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 557

Answers (1)

macropod
macropod

Reputation: 13515

You could use wildcards, with:

.Text = "<2/2>"

With this expression, the < and > specify a word start & end, respectively.

Event that, however, is prone to false matches with strings like 2/2/2022, since the / after the 2/2 designates a word end. Clearly, your code would need some additional checking to check whether a given match is valid. Such checking might be done via a Find expression like:

.Text = "[!/0-9A-Za-z]2/2[!/0-9A-Za-z]"

This tells Word to find 2/2 only when the preceding and following characters are not a /, a number, or a letter. Then, to manipulate the found text, you'd simply move the start of the found range forward one character and the end of the found range back one character.

Upvotes: 1

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