IS THERE A WAY TO USE WILDCARDS IN WORD 2010 TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF WORDS TO BE FOUND

Hello is there a way to use wildcards with the *  or any other functionality to limit the number of words found?

For example I am trying to use a wildcard function to find  any expression with these five words: Mr Xxx and Ms/Mrs/Miss Yyy and limit the search to only these five words.

So in my letter for example if there are five words in a salutation (not involving a  Mr and Mrs couple) such as:

Mr Reed and Miss Warner

or

Mr Roberts and Ms Forster

or

Mr Anderson and Mrs Blake

I would like to know if there is a wildcard expression that can find any of the above five words and limit the findings to these number of words in the salutation.

Thanks

August 16th, 2015 10:05pm

see this:

https://support.office.com/en-ca/article/Find-and-replace-text-and-other-data-in-your-Word-2010-and-Word-2013-documents-c6728c16-469e-43cd-afe4-7708c6c779b7

You can use like Mr *

KR

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August 18th, 2015 8:05am

Hello Kr

Thanks for your suggestion.

For some reason, the link you posted is not working

Also, if you use Mr * then it will find all words after Mr which is what I am trying to avoid. I am looking for a function that would restrict the search to a number of words - as in the example I gave so that it does not go beyond the salutations and the names.

August 25th, 2015 9:59pm

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