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Old 04-19-2019, 07:52 AM   #565
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
i'm curious what the replace expression is that makes this "easily implemented in Word with regex"?
I would guess the OP means using the Formats->Fonts modifiers on the Replace, something like this:

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That Find will not find all sentences, e.g. those following speech where writer's style is to punctuate inside the quotes. For that reason alone I would use a VBA macro.

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