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Big Kev · 09-20-2010, 06:51 PM

Hi

Wondering if someone is able to help with some advice regarding find & replace in Word.

I have a large document that has a lot of similar mistakes in relation to apostropies which have all been replaced with a question mark.

For example the word don't appears as don?t so while the ? remains constant the letters on either side of it are not.

Is it possible to run a find of ^$?^$ with a replace operation that replaces the letters that were found with themselves whilst replacing the ? with an ' if that makes sense?

If so could you please advise how. If not does anyone have any ideas as it will be a pain to have to use spellcheck to correct these mistakes.

Thanks
Kevin

09-20-2010, 06:51 PM	#1
Big Kev Enthusiast Posts: 25 Karma: 43 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Perth, Western Australia Device: Kindle & Ipad	Help with Word - Find & Replace Hi Wondering if someone is able to help with some advice regarding find & replace in Word. I have a large document that has a lot of similar mistakes in relation to apostropies which have all been replaced with a question mark. For example the word don't appears as don?t so while the ? remains constant the letters on either side of it are not. Is it possible to run a find of ^$?^$ with a replace operation that replaces the letters that were found with themselves whilst replacing the ? with an ' if that makes sense? If so could you please advise how. If not does anyone have any ideas as it will be a pain to have to use spellcheck to correct these mistakes. Thanks Kevin