If it’s all one section, then you only have to remove that extraneous text once and it will be reflected in all headers/footers wherever you have the page number.Īlternative method but it comes with some strong warnings (see below): When you’re in the header/footer where the page number is, you can click Page Numbers, then Remove Page Numbers OR choose one of the options from the Top/Bottom of Page lists.īut there are some nasties associated with that depending on what else is in the header/footer where the page numbers are: Page numbers are inserted/apply per section, so if you have 10 sections AND they do not have ‘Link to Previous’ applied, then you might only have 10 places where you have to make this change, so manually deleting the text you don’t want from around the actual page number isn’t such an arduous task. However, if the page numbers are a field inserted by Word, then F&R won’t work. If typed manually, then you’d use a wildcard F&R with (\) in the Find (note: there’s a space after the period), with \2 in the Replace. inserted by Word using the ‘Insert page number’ function, or if they’ve been typed manually. Your find/replace will depend on whether these page numbers are fields (i.e. My advice: MAKE A COPY of your document and experiment on that before deciding on a course of action. Donations to keeping this blog ad-free gratefully accepted (see the link at the top right of the page). įor the Replace: \2 - Tells Word to replace the second element of the Find with what was in the Find (i.e.
HOW TO USE WILDCARDS IN MICROSOFT WORD FIND AND REPLACE CODE
There are no spaces preceding or trailing any of these elements, or in between them, so if you copy the code from this blog post, get rid of any preceding spaces otherwise it won’t work. However, because the closing parenthesis is a special wildcard character in its own right, you need to tell Word to treat it as a normal text character and not as a special character, so you ‘escape’ it with a backslash ‘ \‘ before the ), then surround that string in square brackets. () - You need to find the closing parenthesis, so you need to enclose it in parentheses.(*%) - The represents any number from 0 to 9 the * represents any more characters immediately after that number (more numbers, or a decimal point), thus not limiting the find to only single digit numbers and the % symbol says this string of numbers found must finish with that symbol.However, because parentheses are special wildcard characters in their own right, you need to tell Word to treat them as normal text characters and not as special characters, so you put in a backslash ‘ \‘ (also known as an ‘escape’ character) before the (, AND surround this string in square brackets (otherwise, it won’t work). () - You need to find a specific character (the opening parenthesis), so you need to enclose it in parentheses.The three elements (each is enclosed in parentheses) of the Find are: Once you’re happy that it works, repeat until you’ve replaced them all. Click Find Next, then click Replace once the first is found.Click More, then select the Use wildcards check box.Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog.Here’s what I came up with that worked for all those scenarios: 125%), and numerals with one or more decimals (e.g. In figuring this out, I also took into account that there might be single numerals (e.g 4%), triple numerals (e.g. There is, but it’s a bit trickier than usual because parentheses are also special characters in Word’s find/replace lexicon-these have to be ‘escaped’ for Word to treat them as normal characters and not as special characters. 56%) that were inside parentheses, and replace them with the same number but without the parentheses - i.e. In a comment on another post ( ), AVi asked if there was a way to find percentage numbers (e.g.
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