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September 8, 2016 at 4:09 am #88229
Peter Kahrel
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Yes, it does:

Find what: (.)
Change to: $1

This would replace any character (except the paragraph return) with itself. The parentheses create a referent, which is referenced by $1. You can do 10 references:

Find what: (.)(.)
Change to: $1$2

etc.

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