DataMystic

I am trying to remove the following lines of text and am unable to completely remove with one statement:

11. (tab)Label (tab)FR05
(tab)600-118570(tab) LABEL BOX END CP 4 X 5 YLW
(tab)FR79
(tab)600-113168(tab) LABEL 6 X 3 BOX END YLW (113U)

Keep in mind that this is an auto numbered section... Thanks in advance for any help.

See the help file under ‘Replacing using wildcards’.

I'm not sure if you can use the '11' or not, but try this wildcard pattern:

Label*(113U)

Replace with nothing.

Simon,
That string almost worked...but it left the final parenthesis ")"....I think it saw it as a wildcard. Any suggestions.

Also, it did remove the 11 and renumber everything below properly.

I see in the Help where it says:
"Any string of characters * s*d finds "sad" and "started". "

I suspect this is what you were talking about. I think it may be something to consider to add some information to the Help that talks about full lines of text...example: using the "*" wildcard in a sentence or paragraph between the first and last word will remove every thing between the two words and the words themselves.

Simon,
Ok, I used the following 2 strings and it worked:
1. Label*(113U) Wildcards on
2. )^p Normal
My question is why did the 1st string not get the close paren?

Thanks,
Wayne

Try escaping the ( by preceding it with \ e.g.

\(

Microsoft Word wildcards are very non-standard, but it does seem they use the (..) for grouping, although this is not documented properly.