Scripting Clerical Tasks

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  1. Advanced find/replace in word
  2. Wildcards and find what text
  3. paragraph mark, tab mark

I've given you a document that needs to be edited. In the first line you will notice that the word "center" appears - change it to "centre." A little while later we see fiber, liter, theater (for more examples look here). If you scan down the document you will see there are more. So, let's be lazy.

Then we learn how to customize autocorrect.

And we learn how to be a power user of advanced search and replace.

This demonstration will then move on to editing data.

And eventually we will point ourselves toward regular expressions.

Write a macro for Word.