I like this regex add-in for Excel: http://www.codedawn.com/index/new-excel-add-in-regex-find-replace
Cindy Harper

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 6:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question

For clarity, Word does regex, not just wildcards.  It's not quite as complete as what you'd get with some other environments such as OpenOffice Writer since matching is lazy rather than greedy which can be a big deal depending on what you're doing and there are a couple other catches -- notably no support for "|" -- but it's reasonably powerful. There is no regexp capability in Excel unless you're willing to use VBA.

kyle

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Gordon, Bonnie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> OpenOffice Writer (or a similar program) may be useful for this. It 
> would allow you to search by format while using a more controlled 
> regular expression than MS Word's wildcards.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf 
> Of Matt Sherman
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 12:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question
>
> Thanks everyone, this really helps.  I'll have to work out the 
> italicized stuff, but this gets me much closer.
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Kyle Banerjee 
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Y'all are doing this the hard way. Word allows regex replacements as 
> > well as format based criteria.
> >
> > For this particular use case:
> >
> >    1. Open the find/replace dialog (CTL+H)
> >    2. In the "Find what" box, put (<*>) -- make sure the option for "Use
> >    Wildcards" is selected, and for the format, specify italic
> >    3. For the"Replace box," just put \1 and specify All caps
> >
> > And you're done
> >
> > kyle
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >   Eric Phetteplace writes
> > >
> > > > You can match a string of all caps letters like "[A-Z]"
> > >
> > >   This works if you are limited to English. But in a multilingual
> > >   setting, you need to watch out for other uppercases, such as
> > >   крихель vs КРИХЕЛЬ. It then depends in the unicode implementation
> > >   of your regex application. In Perl, for example, you would use
> > >   [[:upper:]].
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >   Cheers,
> > >
> > >   Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> > >                                               skype:thomaskrichel
> > >
> >
>