Finding and replacing multiple words with different words

Question

I have a document with a lot of diacritical marks.  Is there a way I can replace and/or remove these at one time?  I've tried autocorrect and find and replace but none of these work.

Answer 1

It really depends on whether the diacritical marks are part of the actual characters, or are the separate diacritical marks that can be used. If it's the former, you need to do it on a character-by-character basis for each diacritical mark applicable to that character. For the latter, you could use Find/Replace to delete just the diacritical marks.

Answer 2

You may be able to use the add-in that you can download from http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/vba_find_and_replace.html. See if the "predefined word list" part of it is able to replace diacritical marks.

Answer 3

Seehttp://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm 

For batch processing - see http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/vba_find_and_replace.html

Answer 4

Thank you.  I looked at both websites.  I still haven't found the solution but the content on the websites gave me some ideas.

Answer 5

Exactly what is the problem with using find/replace? Using "Find Next" and "Replace" rather than "replace all" does what you ask for.