Replace the capital letter with itself.Find “I” followed by “I” followed by a space.Īnd I put this in the “Replace with” box:.To do that, I put this in the “Find what” box: The manuscript also had Bible references that looked like this: Using wildcards makes it possible to find exactly the items you want and ignore those you don’t. We couldn’t do that because the manuscript had other parenthetical items (like this one) that didn’t need a period. “Why,” you may be wondering, “did you have to use wildcards? Why didn’t you just find a closing parenthesis and replace it with a closing parenthesis and a period, like this: Find what: Replace the closing parenthesis with a period and a closing parenthesis.Find, as a group, any number of digits followed by a colon followed by any number of digits.Wanting to fix these, I put this string in the “Find what” says: You’ll notice that there’s no period before the closing parenthesis. When I was finished finding and replacing, the references looked like this: Replace the rest of the “Find what” string (the group in parentheses) with itself.Replace the "p" followed by a space with "p" followed by a period and a space.Find, as a group, one or more digits followed by a period followed by a closing parenthesis.The backslash in front of it tells Word to treat it as a character rather than the end of a group “expression.” So the whole string says this:
P an odd-looking thing with its double parentheses, but its meaning becomes clear when you consider that the first closing parenthesis represents the closing parenthesis of the reference. To fix these references, I used the following string in Microsoft Word’s “Find what” box: You’ll notice that there’s no period after the p. One manuscript I worked on had lots of parenthetical references like this: You might be interested in seeing some of the wildcard combinations I’ve used in a few real editing projects. In this article, we explore real-life challenges fixed by Word wildcards. You can use it to quickly find errors and make changes throughout a document in a matter of seconds. Are you getting the most you can from Microsoft Word? Wildcard search is one of the most powerful features in Word.
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