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Originally Posted by Blossom

They are really more Word 2003 wildcards but Basically This is my reference notes I hope you can make heads or tales out of them.

Do a S&R for Manual line breaks and replace with paragraph marks.

MS Word it uses ^13 for a return, with wildcard box checked in the Search Box

^13([a-z]) = This checks for broken sentences

([a-zA-Z])^13 = This checks for broken sentences

([a-z])^13([A-Z]) = This checks for broken sentences

Replace Box
\1 and \2 if there is more then one bracket, add appropriate spaces as needed.

[0-9]{1,}^13 = This checks for page numbers 
[0-9]{1,} = Second check for page numbers and OCR error where numbers replace letters. 

[A-Z]{3,} = Match Case checked, Replace 3, if needed for more word matches.

On Chapter Headers I use S&R if they are already in bold this makes it easier, then I do a search to find bold text using the formatting button. Word has a powerful search! You can search by formatting or wildcards, special word characters or just the regular way. I can then do a replace only on the formatting.

I also use the Styles panel to make batch changes. Alot of back titles I buy have inconsistency when it comes to formatting this feature comes in handy to fix that quick. Highlighting a chapter heading and then click Clear formatting and clicking the appropriate style will really help it to take on the correct formatting you want.

I also use Macros to make it alot faster!

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

For broken sentences in HTML, I use the following search regex:

([^.”":?’'!>—…)])</p>\s+<p[^>]*>

And the replace would be:

\1

(NOTE: there needs to be a "space" character following the \1 for it to work properly)

I don't trust it enough to blindly do a "Replace All" on a whole book, but I rarely have to intervene when stepping through a document an incident at a time.

Originally Posted by Blossom

I will have try this when working with code.
What program does this work with? I've tried Notepad++ and Notepad2 and it can't find anything.

cool, thanks