Advanced Find & Replace with wildcards in Microsoft Word

[@ekoi1995]

0:08 Find formatting 0:45 change formatting 1:53 change partial formatting 2:53 change paragraph breaks to spaces 4:04 add in paragraph breaks - separate a list 5:10 change multi paragraph to 1 paragraph break 7:10 add a space before units 9:11 bold the first word in a list of definitions 10:36 change everything in quotation marks into italics 12:47 remove everything in brackets 14:05 remove everything after the comma 15:17 swap first and last name around

[@zeshanmajeed7492]

You are Genius. This 17 minute video changed my life. Thank you so much

[@lazyreviewssupport9811]

Wow 🎉🎉 😂never knew that there were so many things under this simple *Find & Replace* 😎🎊💐Thanks a lot...

[@amitshellac]

So lucid expression in a rather complex scenario. Wonderful! we hope more stuff in future.

[@techtimes1985]

Wow wow, what comprehensive tutorial on something I was looking for since long. Mam I salute you for this wonderful tutorial.

[@communityrx]

Very Informative. Thanks a lot, today I learnt something new about MS Word, although I have been using word for more than 10 years (professionally). Yet, I believe there is so much to learn.:)

[@rajnishverma3623]

one of the top video on youtube....Thankyou mam thankyou very much,,, i love you so muchhhhhhhhhh muhhhhhhhhhhhh..

[@craigspooner]

Very clear and helpful explanations. Thank you!

[@lazyreviewssupport9811]

9:45 I have a small doubt....just before Halogens, Halocarbons, etc will it not be a *tab* ...😗😗 why would there be a paragraph break near it? I notice that there is also a bullet list preceding the Halogen etc. Why would word search for carriage return?

[@mohamedelwdad1487]

i am enjoying all of u videos because of u British accent ,dearrr 😂😍😘

[@Mainika]

You are a life saver.... Thank you

[@bandaralqahtani4356]

Amazing Karina! I really apprciate this fruitful lesson many thanks 🤝

[@vutrung12345]

this thing is so powerful, thanks for your tutorial

[@lazyreviewssupport9811]

Is it possible to search for style separator in a document and bold all words before it

[@karamalab]

Always come pack to this video and enjoy it... thank you

[@c.blouin6069]

I'm so glad I've found your playlist on MS Word, especially this very tutorial. In a justified running paragraph, is it possible to replace a regular space with a non-breaking space for a particular word (ex. to convert the regular space between the word "Dr." and the "Family name") ONLY when it occurs at the end of a line? I know how to do it for an entire text, but I just can't seem to find the solution this very targeted issue. Your tutorials are simply brilliant! Such clarity!

[@xuliateixeira]

This video is so helpful!! Thank you so much!!

[@smiller3071]

Your video is excellent! I wonder if you have a suggestion for creating a list of acronyms in a document without having to go through and mark each one as an index entry. I was thinking of using wildcard search to select the acronyms, then copy those into a spreadsheet to use as the basis for a Word index, but I can't figure out how to select the spelled-out version of the acronym that precedes it, and I'd like to avoid having to go back and write them all in. For example, can you think of a way I could select "Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA)" and "United States of America (USA)" in a document? Thank you for any assistance!

[@enderkazakli9557]

Very helpful, time-saving work. Appreciated.

[@qdnhan88]

Thank you so much for sharing!! Saved me so much time! :)

[@divinemercyministry2018]

Thankyou for sharing this helpfull tutorial. You saved my day!

[@nevillecreativitymentor]

I have this siutation : 00:21 a full sentence with spaces and stuff essentially a Time stamp and a sentence I want to replalce the space after the time stamp with a Tab Character. Completely stumped ... is it possible to do it with Find and Replalce without writing some magical code !!!

[@karinaadcock]

I think if the time stamps are all formatted like 07:12 then Find what: ([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]) Should find every time stamp no matter what the numbers are. A space must be included at the end of the Find what box. Then in Replace with box put \1 that will make it leave the time stamp the same. Then make a Tab in the document and copy and paste it into the Replace with box after \1 This should make it replace every space after a time stamp with a Tab. The Use wildcards box must be ticked.

[@nevillecreativitymentor]

​@@karinaadcock that was very kind and generous of you to reply and provide the solution (not tried yet ... BTW I am sure it will work 🧡🧡🧡🧡)​

[@neilm2033]

Very nice. Some excellent examples. Chin-chin!!

[@mohammedalmashibi1727]

Amazing, so valuable information ...Thank you Karina

[@thai-binhnguyen540]

Thank you very much for your sharing. Great! Very helpful!

[@Aexo66]

Jings, never realised how powerful/useful find/replace was. One question, at about 5:45 you said that para breaks in wildcards were no longer ^p but ^13, however, you did not say how you knew that, what is the source of that information?

[@endymaksi7153]

thank you so much for the tutorial. it is really helpful.

[@endyunindra8872]

thank you for sharing. it is really helpful.

[@Nigromancy]

This is an excellent video thank you for sharing

[@mohdimranyusof2889]

I am lucky to find this video. thanks.

[@alanhuber364]

Karina, if you happen to see this: Whenever I use an asterisk and the end of word symbol *> to highlight selected text, some of the text beyond the > symbol is highlighted also. I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. I tried brackets to make my selection an expression, but it still does the same thing. Please help! Very frustrating! BTW, your tutorials are excellent, very precise, and to the point... Thanks!

[@rowbyrowby]

Very excellent!! I though I knew all this -- but this is so much more! Thanks! ...Rowby.

[@rushinwe]

super, super helpful. thanks so much!

[@KT-1234]

This is so great!!

[@lenink9788]

Awesome tutorial. You are my hero!

[@emreozdemir3930]

Thank you very much!!!

[@scarsports2]

Hi Karina, this is nice, thanks. I have one query if you can tell me it will be very helpful. I have a paragraph and if I want to insert a paragraph break after exactly 5 words, the 6th word should start in a new paragraph, how can I do it using find and replace ? Thanks

[@Whysoul]

[a-d]{2} does this expression mean do the [a-d] process one more time or does it mean write the value that comes out of [a-d] one more time?

[@thesouthwestern]

Hallo, can you tell me what is the 'code' for adding 1 to find and replace. Chapter number has been removed through the whole document.. So I want to replace Chapter with Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and so on; each time adding 1 tot he previous flue.

[@李啟佑-v6u]

It is really helpful. Thank you so much

[@Yews]

Exactly what I need.

[@mughalgraphics8337]

Accent same like my mother ...Excellent....

[@attiliobaghino]

Great! DEFINITIVE! Thank you very very much.

[@lynneskilken4576]

If it is possible to use Search to find a hyperlink, is it possible to call another macro for the Replace box. For example, if I wanted to Replace "the desk of Sally Jones" with "the desk of Peter Jones" without changing the link (it routes Sally's and Peter's clicks to the same page). I want to do this one by one as Sally should appear on some pages and Peter should appear on others and I need to decide case by case. I have a Macro that replaces Sally with Peter. Is there a way to put that macro in the Replace box?

[@mapleleaves110]

Thanks a lot

[@jgd6460]

Excellent! Thanks!!!

[@ChitoAmaru]

excellent video and extremely useful. where may i download your document used in the video. thanks.

[@kanwalsingh2802]

Thank you for the Video, how can we change the bullet point to next level bullet point with find and replace method please?

[@temurergashev]

Karina, first of all, this is an amazing tutorial. I have a question though, I just have replaced all of my dots with commas, saved and closed my document without noticing the effect of it to my whole document. My sentences, paragraphs are kinda messy right now. Could you help me out, how can I change commas into dots at the beginning of my sentences?

[@karinaadcock]

Find what: , ([A-Z]) Replace with: . \1 Should turn all commas in front of capital letters into dots

[@DC-vj9op]

Hi. Is there a way to make all text bold that comes after a colon? I am currently using wildcards and : *^13. It finds all the relevant text after the colon, but it selects the colon too, which I don't want.

[@khatriajaya]

You can search for bold text using ctrl+b in find what

[@veteran2x]

Hi, do you have any idea where can I find infos about; How to highlight or find in a TEXT ALL the WORDS that starts or ends ONLY with a certain type of letter? thank you p/s It can be with word, excel, CSS, PHP or HTML

[@karinaadcock]

If you want to find words ending with e for example. You can type e in the find box and then select match suffix. Or you can type e> in the find box with use wildcards selected.

[@wikitalentsadmin1900]

Amazing!!!!

[@yunusemreozturk8656]

Hello, is it possible to sellect a word with autonemberd? i.e: ABC1 (1 added autonumbers), Thanks in advance.

[@GajendranMegajolla]

Thanks

[@rambahadurale6598]

Thank you for sharing it. I would be very happy if you instruct me how can I find out the words like ॥ 7॥, ॥ 9॥, ॥ 14॥ etc. that contain in the documents from this method?

[@lj3918]

Dear Karina, your video is very interesting. I'm trying to find a solution to put all numbers which are in brackets in italics, without putting the brackets in italics. Do you think it is doable? I can't find a way :( Thanks so much in advance for your input.

[@MdIshtiaqAhmedTalukder]

can I get the document you prepared for today's video please? and can you make a video for MacOS cause I struggle to find the editing options in this OS. Thank you for your video.

[@karinaadcock]

Here's the link for the document: drive.google.com/file/d/1prng1y-BmAb-lzHcTJY3SH3YeVU6xxeD/view?usp=sharing

[@thequocnguyen1341]

thank you, sir : can you help me ? if i have a word like behind: problem 1: solution..... .... problem 2: can you help me for replace from solution to finish that soluion and infront of problem 2; then replace that solution by 5 white row ? thank you so much !

[@lynneskilken4576]

Is it possible to use Search to find hyperlinks and to change part of the hyperlink's text? Hyperlink in the Styles panel does not show items with that style. Itt is grayed out. Searching for the Highlighted Text from the Styles option in Search returns nothing. a blank search box and Control U sometimes finds hyperlink that are underlined, but not always. I would prefer not to disable all the Hyperlinks to change the Style of Hyperlinks. They don't turn back to Hyperlinks easily or consistently.Thank you so much!

[@AqleemAbbas]

Great Video, I want to add no page no in first and second page, then contents with roman numerals, abstract with i ii and, introduction starts from arabic Any video for this

[@bongzsmalawu1614]

This answered my two year question that no one could answer

[@jeffreyyip5337]

Hi, how to use wildcard for graphic?

[@cyberpunk7088]

what is the method to change one paragraph before question mark ? .. i want to bold all the question in the docs

[@karinaadcock]

I think if you put ^13*\? in the Find what box and leave the Replace box empty but change the format to bold, that should work.

[@cyberpunk7088]

@@karinaadcock Thanks for your reply. Bt it says 'No result found'.

[@surya12pratap]

Hi, Need urgent help ! I want to replace A) available 100 times in my word doc with counting like 1,2,3... 100. Please help !

[@karinaadcock]

In the “Find what:” box put A) Then click in the “Replace with:” box Go to More Search Options, then Format Then select Style Choose the style that you want e.g. 1 / 1.1 / 1.1.1 or List Number

[@surya12pratap]

@@karinaadcock Thanks for reply. Now numbers are coming but letter A) are not getting replaced. It's coming like this - 1. A) 2. A) 3. A)......... I don't want A), i just want numbers in place of A).

[@karinaadcock]

@@surya12pratap Put A) in Find what box and leave Replace with box empty with no formatting and A) will be removed as you're replacing it with nothing

[@surya12pratap]

@@karinaadcock Thanks ! Got it !

[@jamaljamal6169]

Does anybody know how to find & replace (also known as copy & paste) a whole paragraph? Word only lets me do a max of 2 sentences. Also, how do I find & replace a specific number (Example: 20 total pages. Top of each page has the date 0 1 0 5 2 0 2 0) I only want to change the 5 for the date on all 20 pages WITHOUT changing all the 5's throughout the paragraphs?

[@zeshanmajeed7492]

I have used speech to text software to convert a podcast into a document. But now the document contains a lot of repeated words.(as we speak) E.g: I was i was going there. I like that that place. Now How can I replace that repeated words with a single word??

[@yunusemreozturk8656]

Excellent expression. I need different replaement, i wonder if you could help me and is it possible to do it simply ? I would like to change names with names countered. For example, I have words irregularly arranged for each expression. ABCD_01 ABCD_02 ABCD_05 ABCD_3 I would like to select them and replace with regularly countered. YUNUS_1 YUNUS_2

[@Faiz_Muzakky]

what the meaning of number "13"?

[@karinaadcock]

13 represents a paragraph mark

[@anhnhatnguyet4628]

Do you use facebook? i need support

[@NormBa]

Is it just me or this video incredibly blurry?

[@Joseph-bw5lc]

Your voice is so pitchy

[@captainwalker]

Thanks

[@almutenmars]

Awesome cases and solutions... Thank you very much