RE: WORD: Finding all instances of Title Case

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

I played with these wildcards that Hans shared.  At first, I ran the Find
without checking "Use Wildcards" and that didn't work.  Oops.  Then I did
this,

<[A-Z][a-z]

My search found every occurrence of an uppercase letter followed by a
lowercase letter.  This next string found two words in title case next to
each other and the space that divides them. Apparently, a closing angle
bracket to indicate the end of a word is optional here.  This does not find
acronyms.

<[A-Z][a-z]{1,} [A-Z][a-z]{1,}

Find a single title case word,

<[A-Z][a-z]{1,}>

This one will find acronyms,

<[A-Z]{1,}>

To edit all occurrences of a title case word to have a particular style,
search with a search string and leave the replace box blank, but replace
with the correct style (from the "More" options).  Really neat.

I like this wildcard thing.  Thanks, Hans.

Lauren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com 
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> ] On Behalf Of Hans Hatton
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:25 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: WORD: Finding all instances of Title Case
> 
> The following wildcard search pattern in Word will find two 
> consecutive
> capitalized words. Perhaps you could use that to locate the 
> problematic
> capitalization.
> 
> <[A-Z]{1,}[!A-Z] [A-Z]
> 
> Cheers
> Hans
> 
> > > tech.writer1 wrote:
> > > Can anyone suggest a method for finding all instances of words in 
> > > Title Case (init caps) in a document, so that I can apply a 
> > > character style to these words?

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