Questions tagged [find-and-replace]
Operations that locate specific instances of conditions being met and replacing them.
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How to replace characters between wildcards in Microsoft Word?
The issue that I am running into is that while the "Find" bar can 'read' wildcards, the "Replace" bar seemingly cannot, even when I click "Use Wildcards" while in the &...
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find and replace stand alone text
I am using notepad.
I want to remove the word "large" by itself. But if I do a find and replace, it will also replace "large" in apple and banana. How can I do it?
large
large ...
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Change Dot with dot and enter (return)
I was wondering if on a doc file, I can replace the dot (at the end of a sentence) with dot and enter.
Is there any script or something like this, I can try?
Thanks for your time.
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MS Word: find and replace strings in all caps to small caps
I have a tricky issue here with MS Word 365
I have a large document that has lines with abbreviations that are in all caps like the following:
again OBJ say run SS smart fun small TOP cheese DS
I ...
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How to merge lines with particular pattern in VIM?
I have a file looking like this:
output [4:0]
DYN_A2D_GPIO_50_n;
output [4:0]
DYN_A2D_GPIO_55_n;
input [20:0]
DYN_D2A_GPIO_64_n;
I want to merge all lines between semi colon. so that it looks like:...
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How can I find and replace in Word 365 (Delete all after year and add a tab)?
I have a word file with a list of movie titles and their year, along with misc. text and I'd like to delete all the text appearing after the title and year. I'd also like to add a tab between the ...
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Notepad++ find name and password and replace the password
I've been trying to do this for a while now. It's 900+ of line.
I want to replace the password and the name to be the same.
Example:
add name="QHGG4U8M" password="" profile="...
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Find words with numbers but replace only number
In Notepad++, how to find all words with alloy and replace only the number after it with 0?
Although there are cases they need be replaced with 1.
The replacement is on per file basis so 0 and 1 will ...
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Adding leading zeros and reduce decimal place in Notepad++
Add leading zero for values to the 4th column. I need them to be exactly 5.
Also I need the 5th column to be a whole number with no decimals
And I need the 6th column to be 2 digits after the decimal.
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Find and Replace Content Controls in Microsoft Word
Is it possible to use the find and replace module to find instances of content controls within a Microsoft Word document?
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Find and Replace in between Characters in Word
I am currently formating a document which has many " " marks for spoken lines. Using find and replace, I can use the following to select everything which I wish to format.
Find: \"*\&...
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Word find/replace Paragraph mark deletes list number
I have a numbered list in Word:
1. Lorem
2. ipsum
1 dolor
The second list item is split into two paragraphs. This happens in PDF to Word conversions when a digit is present at the line beginning....
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How to search and replace for more than one possible term in Notepad++?
I have the following text in the document and I want to search and replace all instances of Foo and Bar
Foo spot Bar see
Tar bum top Foo
Ipsum gum Bar stop
Using one line in find/replace I'd like the ...
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How can I search/replace paragraph markers in MSOffice on the web?
With the fat-client Office solution, I could always use ^p and ^l in the search and replace fields to indicate paragraph and line breaks respectively.
However, we're now using Linux as the underlying ...
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Word Find/Replace Wildcards: Add quotes at the beginning and end of text block that contains paragraph marks
I have a table and each cell has text in it. Some cells are single lines, some two lines, some multiple lines, The ones with multiple lines use hard paragraph marks (^13) but have no paragraph mark at ...
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