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I need to select and highlight many sentences in which Microsoft Word in which the start word and the end word of the sentence/phrase is the same, but the content in between is different.
How can I achieve this using the find function in word? I want to automate doing this as it should be possible, only thing is I don't know how to achieve this. It would take a very long time for me to manually highlight so many phrases
rzlines
Posted 2011-04-17T17:27:46.017
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this i already know off but could you write the exact expression? – rzlines – 2011-04-17T17:50:52.400
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Let me try and figure it out. I don't quite have word available on the PC. It may be something along the lines of
– Vlueboy – 2011-04-17T18:18:03.677(<*>)*\1in their custom syntax which is not the standard I'm good withthe worry is that all the characters that i'm trying to find are special characters so I'll need to escape them too I guess – rzlines – 2011-04-17T18:24:13.327
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I tested with my string above, but can't limit to once per line. Special chars can be input or escaped. Multi-highlight searches appear to be impossible without VBA macros like this apparent solution. Either paste the code into a real shell outside Word with real regular expressions (cygwin's bash is useful but huge), or you'll need VBA. Sorry that I couldn't solve the issue.
– Vlueboy – 2011-04-17T20:27:34.660