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2025-01-01T19:38:55+00:00

In a thousand-page text that contains Arabic and English words, how can I put the English words in brackets with replace all?

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  1. Paul Edstein 82,861 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-01-01T20:21:44+00:00

    You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:

    Find = <[A-Za-z]@>

    Replace = (^&)

    If you end up with English phrases looking like (hello) (world), another wildcard Find/Replace will clean those up:

    Find = ) (

    Replace = ^32

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