By Colin Wilcox, Graham Mayor, and Klaus Linke Applies to Microsoft Word 97, 2000, and 2002 Have you ever had to make a large number of repetitive changes to a document by hand? For example, have you ever had to find and remove duplicate rows from a large table, or transpose a list of names (change them from "Colin Wilcox" to "Wilcox, Colin")? That type of repetitive find-and-replace work gets old in a big hurry, doesn't it? You can automate many of those find-and-replace tasks. Microsoft Word provides a set of wildcard characters that you can use to build regular expressions, combinations of literal text and wildcard characters. You can use regular expressions to find text that matches a given pattern and then replace those matches with new text. If this all sounds complex, don't worry. We'll introduce it in easy steps, explain things as we go, and provide several working examples . You can use the information in this column with Word 97, 2000, and 200...
