Finding capital letters in Word 3

Sam577 · Sep 12, 2007

Hi,
I often have to define acronyms and abbreviations in words, which are mainly capitalised, so it would be really useful to be able to do a Find on capital letters in Word (2003). In the Find box, I notice that you can find such things as 'any letter' or 'any digit', and that some have codes (such as ^$ for any letter), but I can't see anything for capital letters. Is there a way of doing this, such as a code?
Many thanks,
Sam

mscallisto · Sep 12, 2007

try Edit > Fine > click More > choose match case

mscallisto · Sep 12, 2007

Oops

try Edit > Find > click More > choose match case

xlhelp · Sep 12, 2007

Hi.

First, under the Find/Replace dialog box, click on "More", and check "Use Wildcards"

To find single occurence of a any uppercase letter type
[A-Z]
in the find box

To find dual occurence of uppercase letters type
[A-Z][A-Z]

and so on

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fumei · Sep 18, 2007

Just as an code driven expansion on this:

Code:

Dim r As Range
Set r = ActiveDocument.Range
With r.Find
   .ClearFormatting
   .MatchWildcards = True
   .Text = "[A-Z]"
   Do While .Execute(Forward:=True) = True
      [b]If r.Start <> r.Sentences(1).Start Then[/b]
         r.Expand Unit:=wdWord
         MsgBox r.Text & vbTab & "not a sentence start."
         r.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
      End If
   Loop
End With
Set r = Nothing

As sentences are capitalized, and probably (but not, of course, absolutely) want to be ignored, the code uses a range for the document, looks for capital letters, and then checks to see if the found capital letter is the start of a sentence. If it is the start of a sentence, it goes on to the next found capital letter.

In other words, it will ignore any capital letters that are sentence starts. This may, or may not, be useful. It would depend on whether your capitalized words are by themselves (as sentences), or not. If they are single word sentences, then they are...ummm, sentences.

In this example, I expanded the found capital letter to the entire word and displayed a message. Obviously this action would be changed to whatever you actually wanted to do with the found capital letter. If anything.

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Gerry
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mscallisto · Sep 18, 2007

Very clever xlhelp star worthy

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Finding capital letters in Word 3

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