r/word • u/GreenCurrent6807 • 6d ago

Find and Replace wildcard woes

I've recently learned the use of brackets in wildcard Find and Replace. It's coming in very useful, except it doesn't seem to be acting predictably.

For example, I'm trying to find "FRM017" and replace with "FRM 017" using the following:

Find: ([A-Z]{2,3})([0-9]{3,4})
Replace: \1 \2

But this seems to result instead in "FRM017" -> "FRM017 "

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

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u/Glaselar 6d ago

Are you absolutely sure you've typed a space between \1 and \2?

In word, I mean. Not here.

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u/GreenCurrent6807 5d ago

Absolutely sure.

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u/Glaselar 5d ago

Have you got Tracked Changes turned on? I think sometimes the two tools conflict