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• • January 24, 2019 at 4:15 pm #113856
    Chris Shaddock

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    I am looking to change all instances of she / he to they. Most instances start with lower case but some instances start with a capital. How can I use GREP to find all instances of she/he starting or not with a capital and replace it with ‘they’ where the ‘t’ will be capital if the found word has a capital? My document is about 400 pages so, your help will save me a load of time. Thanks in advance.

    I hope I am explaining clearly. If this question has been asked please point me to that thread. I looked here and on Google but my google fu fails me.

  • January 25, 2019 at 5:38 am #113875
    Vinny –

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    Not sure if you want to catch She, she, He and he or if you want to catch She/he and she/he.

    In the first case:
    Find (?i)s?he

    In the second case
    Find (?i)she/he

    in both cases, replace by They

    Fyi : (?i) means case insensitive

    Hope that helps
    Vinny

    ps: I suppose you’re aware that you might end up with cases such as “They’s fine”

  • January 25, 2019 at 8:22 am #113878
    Vinny –

    Member

    Ooops I read your question more carefully and I realized I got it all wrong.

    I think the easiest way would be to run two queries without the case sensitivity.
    Find she/he
    Replace by they

    Find She/he
    Replace by They

  • January 25, 2019 at 1:50 pm #113899
    Nicole Marr

    Member

    If the instances of she/he are not set up like this with the slash, and you mean either “she” or “he”
    Find (s?he)
    Replace they

    Find (She|He)
    Replace They

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