Hi,

I have a technical editing macro that identifies and fixes various
glitches in technical reports. I'd like to highlight instances of
repeated characters, where authors have entered repeated characters to
remind themselves to fill in the specifics later.

For example, "The details are provided in Figure xxx." or "The system
weighs yyy lb."

It's typical that authors use xx, yy, or zz, so have already addressed
those (see below), but would like to be able to find all instances of
words consisting of only repeated characters (aaaa, bbbb, ccc, dddddd,
etc) with a single search pattern.

For xs, yx, and zs, I already have the following, highlighting each
replacement in yellow:

FindText:="(<[xX]@>)", ReplacementText:="\1"
FindText:="(<[yY]@>)", ReplacementText:="\1"
FindText:="(<[zZ]@>)", ReplacementText:="\1"

Thanks in advance for your help!




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Dave Gaines

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