Search for any words in upper case in Word Thread poster: Cecilia Falk
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Hello,
Is there a way to search for only words in upper case in Word in one go and for example change them to red font color, that is I do not want to search for each seperate word, but all at once?
For example:
The search would find:
CORRELATION FACTOR
ONBOARD STABILITY
but not:
correlation factor
onboard stability
or:
Correlation Factor
Onboard Stability
Best regards,
Cecilia
| | | | Nesrin 
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:12
English to Arabic
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| Yes, it's possible | Oct 15, 2007 |
Go to "Replace" and write the words in upper case in the "Find" field, and again the same words in the "Replace field".
Then, click on "More" to see more options, and click "match case".. Then click on the "Format" drop down list, and select "Font". There, you can select red as a font colour.
Then click on "Replace all".
| | | | Cecilia Falk
Local time: 02:12
English to Swedish
TOPIC STARTER | Sorry for being unclear... | Oct 15, 2007 |
I want to search for *any* word and *all* words in upper case in a document without specifying any particular word, like you could search for all words in red font color, for example.
Best regards,
Cecilia
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Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:12
English to Arabic
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| I don't think so | Oct 15, 2007 |
Ah I get you now - you were clear alright but I didn't read properly.
I thought it might work if I leave the find and replace fields blank, then specify the replace format as "all caps", but it didn't work. It seems the all caps words have to be formatted as such in the original document, not simply typed by by pressing "caps lock".
| | | | Cecilia Falk
Local time: 02:12
English to Swedish
TOPIC STARTER | Experimenting | Oct 15, 2007 |
Thanks Nesrin,
Yeah, I have been experimenting with the setting you mentioned, wildcards, etc, but no been able to come up with any solution to this.
It would be GREAT if someone has a smart tip for this "problem" (it would save me a lot of time in a large project).
Best regards,
Cecilia
| | | | Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 02:12
Member (2003)
English to Czech
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| Search for any words in upper case in Word | Oct 15, 2007 |
Try this on a working copy of the document:
Search for:
(<[A-Z]@>)
Replace with:
\1
and set the required format.
Check "Use wildcards" and replace.
| | | | Cecilia Falk
Local time: 02:12
English to Swedish
TOPIC STARTER
It worked like magic!
Thank you, Hynek!
Best regards,
Cecilia
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Cristina Popescu (X)
Romania
Local time: 03:12
English to Romanian
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1. In the Find box, click More, then Format - Font and check "All Caps".
2. Then, back in the main Find box, click Special and choose Any Character.
That should do the trick.
| | | | Cecilia Falk
Local time: 02:12
English to Swedish
TOPIC STARTER | Does not work | Oct 15, 2007 |
Hello Cristina,
Sorry, this does not work. As Nesrin pointed out the upper case letters would have had to have been formatted as such in the original document to make it possible to search for them with this setting.
(And if it had worked, it would have searched for all letters in upper case, for example a letter in the beginning of a word. I only wanted to find whole words in upper case.)
Best regards,
Cecilia
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
Local time: 02:12
Member (2004)
English to Polish
SITE LOCALIZER | Formatting is something else... | Oct 15, 2007 |
Cristina Popa wrote:
1. In the Find box, click More, then Format - Font and check "All Caps".
2. Then, back in the main Find box, click Special and choose Any Character.
That should do the trick.
Unfortunately, this works only if the capital letters have been done with formatting in the first place. If they are merely typed in, as in Cecilia's example, this option does not work.
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