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Subject:Re: Sophisticated searches in WORD From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- CYBERPASS -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:36:31 -0800
>In the Find What box type
>
>[!A-Za-z0-9 ]
>
>and then select Use Pattern Matching.
There's a great book called "Mastering Regular Expressions" by
Jeffrey Friedl (O'Reilly, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-257-3). If you want
to do this kind of pattern matching, it's a good place to start.
...RM
Richard Mateosian <srm -at- cyberpass -dot- net>
Review Editor, IEEE Micro Berkeley, CA
