Quickly edit text in a list of items in MS Word (or, an intro to regular expressions)
Find/Replace in MS Word is a powerful tool, but many people don’t realize just how powerful it can be.
I had a list of dates I wanted to put quotes around. Here is what I wanted to happen:
I could have done it one by one, but I am lazy. Not only am I lazy, there is a shortcut you can use — so why waste time? With a little bit of regular expression magic, you can do this in about 10 seconds. What are regular expressions? Well . . .
