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phossler · 02-12-2019, 11:46 AM

Editing a book with a number of foreign words repeated in many places that I wanted to bracket in foreign_word

I was using Find: (foreign_word#1), Replace: \1

Get the next word or phrase, repeat

Occurred to me that if I had a Saved Search that would use the Selected text:

Find: ($Selected), Replace: \1

then I could just select the text, run the search, select next text, run search, repeat

02-12-2019, 11:46 AM	#1
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,071 Karma: 412718 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Is there a way to use the selection in a Saved Search? Editing a book with a number of foreign words repeated in many places that I wanted to bracket in <i>foreign_word</i> I was using Find: (foreign_word#1), Replace: <i>\1</i> Get the next word or phrase, repeat Occurred to me that if I had a Saved Search that would use the Selected text: Find: ($Selected), Replace: <i>\1</i> then I could just select the text, run the search, select next text, run search, repeat Last edited by phossler; 02-12-2019 at 12:48 PM.