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stman
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August 23, 2010
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Find acronyms

  • August 23, 2010
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FM 9.0 / WinXP

Does anyone know of a way to automatically search through a document (or a file) and find acronyms? Most acronyms are all capitalized, but I can't find anything in the Find/Change dialog that's suitable. Maybe there's another way?

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    Mike Wickham
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    August 23, 2010

    Try this: If you want to find certain characters, put them between brackets

    in the find dialogue to create a wildcard. So put

    "[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ][ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]" (without the

    quotes, of course) as the text to find. Check the "Consider Case" and "Use

    Wildcards" checkboxes. This will find any instance of two capital letters

    next to each other. So it should find all acronyms that use letters, though

    those with more than two letters will only be partially selected when found.

    You could also put a period after those two bracketed terms to find "U.S."

    instead of "US". Or put numbers in there to find "B2B" and so forth.

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      stmanAuthor
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      August 23, 2010

      Hey, that's really useful.

      Much thanks.

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