S&R Don't

mo · Post by mo » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:57 pm

Here is one you definately do not want to do:

You have a document in a work-group with a dozen other files which uses the elipsis in an obtrusive style "dot space dot space dot" and you want to replace it with the three dots together.

Search: ". . ."
All Documents
Replace All: "..."

Then you quit for the day.

Next day after doing enough things to render "Go Back" useless, you are working on the document and you see some strange things

an...lear

wit...elightful

i...elightful

i...illage

o...oung

</span...on

Oops! Forgot to uncheck 'Regular expression'

Leif · Post by **Leif** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:07 pm

LOL! Yeah! A similar thing happened to me! More than once.

mo · Post by mo » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:35 pm

I will not be one-upped!

Take any of the errors above:

Search: wit...elightful
Replace: with a delightful

All Documents

Oops!

I have got to stop getting up at 3:00 in the morning to do this stuff.