Find capitalized words (a powerfind example) – Nisus Writer Express User Manual
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Proofing Documents
Find capitalized words (a PowerFind example)
1.
Open the document you need to revise and move the insertion point to the beginning of the
document or type the following into a new document
I went for a walk along the Atlantic City boardwalk and thought about all I
had missed. A few hours earlier she had asked me to join her for a trip
across New Jersey through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, the great Midwest
and over the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean in California.
Then complete these steps.
2.
Choose Show Find… from the Find submenu of the Edit menu, then choose Show PowerFind
Browser… from the Gear menu beneath Find what.
The PowerFind Browser window opens to offer more capabilities.
3.
Select PowerFind Commands from the PowerFind column, then Wild Card from the
PowerFind Commands column and then UppercaseLetter from the Wild Card column to find
strings of characters that begin with a capital letter.
You can double-click UppercaseLetter or select it and click Insert.
Or
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Choose UppercaseLetter from the Wild Card menu of the Find what menu of the Find/
Replace window to find strings of characters that begin with a capital letter.
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As you insert the expression, the Using pop-up menu automatically switches from Normal Find to
PowerFind.
1.
Select Wild Card from the PowerFind Commands column and then Select LowercaseLetter
from the Wild Card column to tell PowerFind that the word you’re looking for may contain some
lowercase letters after the initial capital letter.
You can double-click LowercaseLetter or select it and click Insert.
Or
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Choose LowercaseLetter from the Wild Card menu of the Find what menu of the Find/
Replace window.
2.
Select Repeat from the PowerFind column, then 0+ from the Repeat column.
You can double-click 0+ or select it and click Insert.
Or
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Choose 0+ from the Repeat menu of the Find what menu of the Find/Replace window.
We know that most words have more than one lowercase character.
3.
If it is checked, be sure to uncheck Ignore Case. Otherwise Nisus Writer Express will find all
words whether they are capitalized or not.
Figure 165
Building the PowerFind expression
4.
Click the Next button to begin the search.