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#ENCLOSE CHARACTER WORD 2010 UPDATE#
#ENCLOSE CHARACTER WORD 2010 TRIAL#

There’s no limit on what sort of characters (alpha, numeric, or symbols) Word is to find, or on how many there are.

(*) - This tells Word to look for any characters after the opening square bracket.

However, because the square brackets are special wildcard characters in their own right, you need to tell Word to treat them as normal text characters and not as special characters, so you put in a backslash ‘ \‘ (also known as an ‘escape’ character) before the [.

(\[) - You need to find a specific character (the opening square bracket), so you need to enclose it in parentheses.

If it’s all OK, save your document with the new changes.

Once all replacements have been made, check that you got what you expected before making further changes to the document.

Your Find and Replace dialog box should now look like this:įind and reformat text inside square brackets

On the Font dialog box change the settings to what you want - in my husband’s case, this was 4 pt and blue - then click OK.

Click the Format button, and select Font.

Go to the Replace with field and type: \1\2\3.

Type the following exactly (or copy it from here): (\).

Put your cursor into the Find what field.

Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.

entire document, selected paragraphs, selected columns or rows of a table).

Select the text you want to change (e.g.

Meantime, here’s my solution, which works in all versions of Word: I explain what all the settings mean after these steps, if you’re interested.

#ENCLOSE CHARACTER WORD 2010 TRIAL#

With some help from and a bit of trial and error, I figured it out. However, square brackets are special characters in wildcard searches, so they have to be treated differently. This is an ideal job for using wildcards in Word’s find and replace. Of course, you could always choose to Replace All the multiple spaces.My husband wanted to select a long column of text and find any text that was inside square brackets and reformat it so that the text - and the square brackets - was 4 pt and blue (no, I don’t know why either…). The cursor will automatically move to the next occurence of multiple spaces. To replace these with a hard return, click. The cursor will move to the first set of two or more spaces. To find the first occurence of two or more spaces, click. To activate the “Use wildcards” option, click the checkbox. Without this, we won’t get the results we want. To do this, in the “Replace with” field, type: ^p.īefore this will work, we need to make sure that the “Use wildcards” option is activated. Let’s replace the spaces with a hard return. What do we want to use to replace the multiple spaces? If we’d like to insert a tab, we type: ^t. To find a varying number of spaces, we will use the. Move to the Replace tab at the top of the dialog box. Open the Find and Replace dialog box by clicking and choosing “Advanced Find…” Now, what about that coworker who tends to separate ideas or lists with several spaces instead of a tab or hard return? How can we find a group of spaces that varies in number? This is just slightly trickier than finding 2 spaces.

Of course, you could always choose to Replace All the double spaces.įinding and Replacing a Varying Number of Spaces The cursor will automatically move to the next occurence of two spaces. To replace these with a single space, click. The cursor will move to the first set of two spaces. To find the first occurence of two spaces, click. In the “Replace with” field, type: 1 space.īecause the spaces don’t appear as text, the Find and Replace dialog box will seem to be empty…but it isn’t. To find two spaces, in the “Find what” field, type: 2 spaces. Click the Replace tab at the top of the dialog box. To open the Find and Replace dialog box, on the Ribbon, click: and choose “Advanced Find…” Using Word’s Find and Replace feature, we can easily find these extra spaces and replace them with the formatting of our choice (single space, tab, or hard return). Or possibly we have a coworker who likes to separate ideas with several spaces instead of a tab or hard return.

#ENCLOSE CHARACTER WORD 2010 UPDATE#

Perhaps we were taught to put two spaces between sentences and now need to update documents to have only one space. There are several reasons we might need to find and replace spaces in Word.