Re: Word Search & Replace w/ variable

[Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

That worked once I changed the *Find* portion from F* to F???.

(F* was only addressing the initial alpha char, then ignoring the trailing
three digits.)

Thx


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> In the Find and Replace dialog, check the "Use wildcards" box, then use
> the Formatting dropdown to select the fonts to find and replace with.
> Use an asterisk for the wildcard.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
>
>> I have a long document with a number of function calls similar to this:
>> F001.
>> I want to do a global search and replace, whereby any *{F###} *is changed
>>
>> from TNR to Arial.
>>
>> How would I set this up?
>>
>> Thanks
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