使用通配符在word中实现高级查找和替换

Find and Replace using wildcards

This tutorial pre-supposes that the user will have some

basic experience of Word's 'replace' function.

The secret of using wildcard searches is to identify the

unique string of text that you wish to find. Wildcards are

combined with regular text and formatting options to

represent the characters or sequences of characters in

that string. Because different combinations of characters

can be represented by a variety of wildcard combinations,

there is often more than one way of identifying a particular

string of text within a document. How you choose to

represent that group of characters is therefore a matter of

individual preference; and the context of the text within the

document will to a great extent dictate the most suitable

combination to use on a particular occasion.

Start by identifying the string you wish to replace and then

pop up the replace function (CTRL+H) or select Advanced

Find from the Editing group on the Home tab of the

ribbon (see below); or in earlier Word versions Edit >

Replace.

Click the 'More' button to present the additional functions and check the 'Use wildcards' option:

Insert your find and replace strings using the following guide for inspiration.

You can paste any (Unicode) character - unfortunately

*not* characters from decorative (Symbol) fonts) - into your search expressions. So copying the first and last characters from the Greek or cyrillic subsets into a search:

[;-ώ] would match any Greek character α β γ δ ε...

<[Ё-ґ]@> matches any cyrillic word: Вы можете помочь мне?(“Can you help me please?”)

In Word 2000, you can type in Unicode characters with the Alt-key (make sure NumLock is on, then hold down the Alt-key and type the numbers on the numeric keyboard). Since all characters from decorative fonts (Symbol-, Wingdings-fonts ...) are kept in a special code page from &HF000 to &HF0FF, you can search for them with

[Alt61472-Alt61695].

Gotchas .

You may wish to identify a character string by means of a

paragraph mark ¶. The normal search string for this would

be ^p.

^p DOES NOT WORK in wildcard search strings! It must

however be used in replacement strings, but when

searching, you must look for the substitute code ^13.

Wildcard searches will also not find footnote/endnote

marks - substitute ^2.

A-z would be expected to reproduce all the letters between

A and z i.e. both upper case and lower case letters, which

it does, but it reproduces all the characters from ASCII 65

to ASCII 122, and that block also includes the characters [ ]

` ^ _ / Use A-Za-z instead.

The question mark ? is used to find individual characters.

If used with curly brackets to define a range of characters

eg

#?{1,3}# it will behave as an asterisk and find all the

characters between the hash symbols.

Control Codes that may be used with the search/replace tool

/?kbid=197855