![]() That’s the magic code that tells Word to replace what was found with what was found. Put a check in the box labeled “Use Wildcards.” If the More button is available, click it.ģ. Press CTRL + H to bring up Word’s Replace dialog.Ģ. We can replace the lowercase letter with itself formatted as uppercase. ![]() There is, however, a rather sneaky (but ultimately unsatisfactory) workaround. ![]() In fact, if we try that, Word will simply replace what was found with the string itself, giving us this: ![]() Using a wildcard search, we can find any lowercase letter (preceded by a colon and space) by using the following string in the Find What box:īut in the Replace With box, we should use-what? We can’t use the following string because it doesn’t specify what the replacement letter should be: Unfortunately, there’s no good way to do that. I know I can do this by macro, and I have one that will do it, but I would like to do it by wildcard so I can make it part of a script I run. That is, the first letter after the colon and space is changed from lowercase to uppercase. I need a wildcard find and replace, assuming it can be done by wildcards, that searches for the following Rich Adin, the proprietor of this blog, recently sent me an interesting question. Finding and Replacing Upper- and Lowercase
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