Between the Special Wildcard characters finds words with double or triple o’s (but only in succession). Situations like this illustrate best how wildcards can save the day!įirst, you have to determine what to search for and then what to replace it with. Then, if you replace all occurrences of lowercase ann with mae, you’ll get some very odd results: maeiversary, Cezmaee, plmaeing, chmaeel, cmaeonball, mmaeequins, etc. However, it you enter lowercase ann, you’ll find Cezanne, planning, channel, cannonball, mannequins, and other words containing those letters, but not the woman’s name. For example, if you want to find all occurrences of someone named Ann, the basic Search and Replace only locates Ann, Anne, and Anniversary (if it’s capitalized) because wildcard searches ARE case sensitive. Anyone who works with large documents (hundreds of pages) knows how long it takes to make global changes using just the basic Search and Replace options.
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