Microsoft Word - find and replace tips

have a large file with coding and I will be doing this weekly. I want to replace all the text between symbols See example. And I don't want to just highlight and delete...there is too much text.
This is the following text paragraph.
<rb0><*kn0><*kt(A)><p(0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0)><*L>NOTICE UNDER ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME ACT<\n>COUNTY OF SMITH<\n>TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:<\n>Notice is hereby given that on the 16TH DAY OF JANUARY 2008 a Certificate of Ownership of business was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Smith County, stating that<\n>LISA Doe<\n>Intend to transact, or are transacting business in Smith County, under the fictitious name to wit: <\n>ONE-L GROUP<\n>And that is/are the sole Owner(s) and Proprietor(s) of said business; and that the principal place of said business is located <\#13><*rb(.15, 0, K, 100%, 0, 0, .015)><*p(0,0,0,8.5,0,0)>
I need it to appear like the following
NOTICE UNDER ASSUMED BUSINESS NAME ACT COUNTY OF SMITH TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that on the 16TH DAY OF JANUARY 2008 a Certificate of Ownership of business was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Smith County, stating that LISA DOE Intend to transact, or are transacting business in Smith County, under the fictitious name to wit: ONE-L GROUP And that is/are the sole Owner(s) and Proprietor(s) of said business; and that the principal place of said business is located.
mmm

Have you tried the "forms" function of M$ Word. You prepare the standard text & insert blank spaces where the name data is typed in.
 Cheers, Tom

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Hi Ian,
It is not easy to find Microsoft forums. However this forum is for the Visual Studio Net version.
Try this forum for VBA.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=isvvba
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technically
called a "forward lookaround". The effect is that the second
half of the
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http://foundationphp.com/

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with Single Spacing" (on the menu, under Search).
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There was one other post recently about this but otherwise this problem had gone quiet so I don't know why you are seeing it in a project that was not opened before applying the patches.
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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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We have a fairly large RH HTML project (300+ topics so far)
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case here.)
You'll run two replacement passes (spaces added to < &
> tags for proper viewing in this forum):
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BTW, Add me to the list of FAR boosters; it'll let you change
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Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
$text = “text1”,”text2”,”text3”,”text3”
$Excel
= New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
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$Worksheet
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$shape = $Worksheet.Shapes
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$i=0
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[void]$excel.quit()
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Before invoking the methods and properties, we can use the cmdlet “Get-Member” to list the available methods.
Besides, we can also find the documents about these methods and properties in MSDN:
Workbook.Worksheets Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835542(v=office.15).aspx
Worksheet.Shapes Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff821817(v=office.15).aspx
Shape.TextFrame Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839162(v=office.15).aspx
TextFrame.Characters Method (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838596(v=office.15).aspx
After running the script above, we can see the changes in the figure below:
Figure 2.
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Thank you for the information, but does this thread really need to be stuck to the top of the forum?
If there must be a sticky, I'd rather see a link to a page on the wiki that has links to all of these ForumFAQ posts.
EDIT: I see this is no longer stuck to the top of the forum, thank you.
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