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Originally Posted by texasnightowl
Is there an easy way to do a search for paragraphs that start with a word with no capitalization? Am I overlooking something?
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With regular expressions what you are asking to do is extremely easy. However word somehow has chosen to make this very difficult, because they are inconsistent. You'll see what I mean in a few
1) Hit <CTRL>+H to get the find/replace
2) Depress the <MORE> button (if you only see <Less> don't do anything)
3) Check the "Use Wildcards" check box
4) In the Find text box enter w/o quotes "^13([a-z]?)"
//This finds all lower case letters on a new line
//**Here is the inconsistency. New paragraphs are ^p which is not the same as ^13 which is a new line. When using the "Use Wildcards" option the ^p is not supported, so there will be cases where you will not find text using the expression in line 4.
5) In the Replace enter w/o quotes " \1".
// ** Note the space in before \1. This puts a space between the two words else you will have a lot of spelling errors due to word concatenation.
// the \1 inserts the text found in () from step 4. If you had two ()() then you would have \1\2
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