FrameMaker search

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Nancy,

Using the Wildcard function in your Find enter the following:

[0-9]in

That will find all of the instances.

However, FrameMaker doesn't replace patterns. So the replacement would 
need to be manual. In my case, I'd save it as MIF, open it in Oxygen, 
and do a grep pattern search and replace.

Other wise you'd need to do 10 search and replacements, one for each 
digit in front of the in.

Scott

On 1/11/11 3:45 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I need to correct the measurements, in inches, in which the space has been omitted between the number and the unit.
>
> In other words:
>
> Height: 17in
> Depth: 21in
> Width: 10in
>
> Or:
>
> The unit is 17in deep.
>
> In Word, I could specify that a numerical value precedes the alpha characters "in" and perform a search.
>
> In FrameMaker, is there a way to make a search that specific?
>
> As it is, I believe I have to search for every instance of "in," which turns up every word that contains the two letters "in" including, well, **including**.
>
> It's rare that I long for Word, but this is one of those instances. I can save the whole thing to RTF and do the search in Word, but I'd like to find out first if Frame has the capability.
>
> --Nancy
>
>