Regular expression or a macro for MS Word that finds bold text followed by brackets

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Hello everyone,

I'd like to delimit entries from their content in a dictionary which is in MS Word format. To do that I need a regular expression or a macro that would insert a paragraph break only before a string of text in bold that is followed by square brackets (which contain phonetic transcription of the dictionary entries).

Thank you for the help.

Posted 15-Apr-13 7:31am

Gleesic

Updated 15-Apr-13 7:33am

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Maciej Los 15-Apr-13 13:35pm

What have you done till now?

Gleesic 15-Apr-13 15:47pm

Thank you for trying to help Maciej, but I'm not knowledgeable in programming and it doesn't help much unfortunately. I have removed all paragraph breaks from the dictionary and now I need a regular expression or a macro that will put back paragraph breaks only before those phrases in bold that are immediatelly followed by a left square bracket. That would do a job for me, and would allow me to delimit the entries from their content.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2013-04-15T08:29:00

Solution 1

Start here: Finding and Replacing Text or Formatting (VBA)[^]

Posted 15-Apr-13 8:29am

Maciej Los