Once you check the "Use wildcards" box in the Find and Replace dialog box, you can use the wildcard characters shown in Table 3-2 to search for items. How does this work? You've just used three wildcard characters to build a regular expression. \wildcard Find the specified wildcard \* finds the * character. One or more instances of the previous character or expression finds "pep" and "peep". Again, you must specify the range in alphabetical order. Any character except those in the specifie-d range ower finds "bower", "cower", "dower", "tower", and "vower", but not words such as "lower" or "mower", which are inside the range. You must specify the range in alphabetical order. One of the characters in the specified range ower finds "lower", "mower", "power", and "rower", but not words such as "tower" or "cower", which are outside the range. One or more of the characters specified wd finds "wad", "wed", and "weed", but not "wood", because "o" is not included in the bracketed selection of letters. () Group wildcard characters () finds a word by specifying a group with the start of the word, the * wildcard to find a string of characters, and the end of the word. The end of a word or group of characters >ble finds "horrible", "terrible", and other words that end in "ble", but not words such as "bleary" or "ablest". This also finds "wd", because the string can have zero length. * A string of characters (including spaces) w*d finds strings of text that start with "w" and end with "d", such as "wad", "wood", "wicked", and part of "stra wberry d onut". Wildcard characters for searching in Word Wildcard Meaning Example using the wildcard ? Any one character sh?p finds "ship" and "shop". Check the "Use wildcards" box and click the Replace All button.
Enter \3^t\2, \1 in the "Replace with" box, including the space after the comma. Enter () () () in the "Find what" box, with a space between each closing parenthesis and the opening parenthesis following it. Clear any formatting from the "Find what" box and the "Replace with" box. Otherwise, select only the names, as the pattern matches any sequence of three words.) Choose Edit » Replace (or press Ctrl+H) to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. (If the whole document is the names, you don't need to select anything.
Open the document and select the part of it that contains the names. The chairperson just handed me the list of our members' names and askedwell, toldme to change it from "Firstname Lastname Membershipnumber" to "Membershipnumber Tab Lastname, Firstname." My future flashed before me, and it's looking tedious enough to bore a well.
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