Searching in Word

[ngardner]

I have a user that wants to search through a document and find WORD1 and when it occurs with 5 words of WORD2.
I can see that this can partially be achieved by using wildcards in the find function: "WORD1 * WORD2"
Is there a way to limit this to only have 5 words between the two??
Thank you

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi ngardner,

If you use this pattern you'll get as close as I can see how:

[tt]WORD1 (<[! ]{1,}>) (<[! ]{1,}>) (<[! ]{1,}>) (<[! ]{1,}>) (<[! ]{1,}>) WORD2[/tt]

This won't quite cope with words separated by other than spacing (paragraph marks, tabs, etc.) - let's hope someone else can do better.

Enjoy,
Tony

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