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    • May 17, 2010 at 8:31 am #55721
      Billy Chase
      Member

      Hello,

      I have a newsletter that I work on every couple of months. They have a list of donors that they acknowledge in each issue that changes. I'm looking for a way to capture a phrase and then the added text at the end of the phrase.

      It would look something like this:

      Mr. Hammerstein, in honor of Robert Hammerstein

      Mr. Hand, in memory of Mr. Hand, Sr.

      Dr. Jones

      Mr. Baldwin, Jr., in honor of Fred Mann '88

      “In honor” and “in memory” are the beginning phrases but then the text changes after that would need to be bold.

      Thanks for any help.

    • May 17, 2010 at 8:47 am #55723
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      This is a bit ropey perhaps

      But give it a try

      ,s(in)sw+.+

      That will find

      a comma

      followed by a space

      followed by “in”

      and then a space

      and then a word

      and up to the end of the sentence

    • May 17, 2010 at 9:30 am #55729
      Billy Chase
      Member

      That's pretty solid.

      I added a ? to the code after the comma. After looking through the text I realized that the department didn't always put a comma after the person donating money.

      The code also picks up the comma and bolds it but this is definitely a great start.

      Much appreciated.

    • May 17, 2010 at 1:17 pm #55734
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      I thought you wanted the comma to be bold?

      In that case just remove the comma from the search

      ,

    • May 17, 2010 at 1:39 pm #55735
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      It can be made slightly more solid since you know what items may follow the “in”. Thus you can avoid the likes of “in the absence of” :-D

      bin (honor|memory) .+

    • May 18, 2010 at 7:52 am #55742
      Billy Chase
      Member

      Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.

      I'm still new to GREP. I can grasp it somewhat but I still get stumped a lot.

      All the GREP codes worked. I used the last one and it seemed to grab what I want.

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