Tjyylli

How would a mousetrap for use in space work?

How were pictures turned from film to a big picture in a picture frame before digital scanning?

Can a Beast Master ranger change beast companions?

What does it mean that physics no longer uses mechanical models to describe phenomena?

Significance of Cersei's obsession with elephants?

The Nth Gryphon Number

How can I set the aperture on my DSLR when it's attached to a telescope instead of a lens?

Karn the great creator - 'card from outside the game' in sealed

What to do with repeated rejections for phd position

Drawing spherical mirrors

What is the difference between a "ranged attack" and a "ranged weapon attack"?

Amount of permutations on an NxNxN Rubik's Cube

How does the math work when buying airline miles?

Deconstruction is ambiguous

Is the IBM 5153 color display compatible with the Tandy 1000 16 color modes?

Did any compiler fully use 80-bit floating point?

Project Euler #1 in C++

Co-worker has annoying ringtone

One-one communication

A term for a woman complaining about things/begging in a cute/childish way

What does this say in Elvish?

How to report t statistic from R

Has negative voting ever been officially implemented in elections, or seriously proposed, or even studied?

Can the Flaming Sphere spell be rammed into multiple Tiny creatures that are in the same 5-foot square?

Replacing middle & last names in many word documents

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ height:90px;width:728px;box-sizing:border-box;
}

0

I have about 200 letters I need to be sending out through email to people, and right now the header is set up like this:

Dear FirstName MiddleName LastName,

But my boss would like it to just be set up like this:

Dear FirstName,

I have already put in these 200+ names so going back through and removing all middle and last names would take a bit of time. I have a program that will find and replace text to all 200 word documents by itself, but I have to tell the program what to search for and what to replace it with.

So, is there anyway I can do a find and replace in word that would change, for example, these greetings

Dear Bob Michael Barley,
Dear Michelle Renee Grace Steiner,
Dear Russell William John Willson,

to

Dear Bob, Dear Michelle, Dear Russell,

Notice how there are some people with 2 middle names which makes things a bit more complicated.

I know that this search syntax

r(*{1,}),

Can be used to find their full name plus the comma at the end and the r at the end of Dear. But I am not sure what I can use to replace this with so that only the Dear FirstName, is left.

Any help?

microsoft-word

share|improve this question

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1

New contributor

CoderKlipto is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  If you've created a form to generate the 200 letters, wouldn't it be easier to edit the form and re-merge the data?
  
  – fred_dot_u
  5 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Look into the "Mail merge" options of Word. I assume that you have made sure the recipients have accepted (you DID ask, didn't you!?) you sending this kind of send-outs.
  
  – Hannu
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

0

I have about 200 letters I need to be sending out through email to people, and right now the header is set up like this:

Dear FirstName MiddleName LastName,

But my boss would like it to just be set up like this:

Dear FirstName,

I have already put in these 200+ names so going back through and removing all middle and last names would take a bit of time. I have a program that will find and replace text to all 200 word documents by itself, but I have to tell the program what to search for and what to replace it with.

So, is there anyway I can do a find and replace in word that would change, for example, these greetings

Dear Bob Michael Barley,
Dear Michelle Renee Grace Steiner,
Dear Russell William John Willson,

to

Dear Bob, Dear Michelle, Dear Russell,

Notice how there are some people with 2 middle names which makes things a bit more complicated.

I know that this search syntax

r(*{1,}),

Can be used to find their full name plus the comma at the end and the r at the end of Dear. But I am not sure what I can use to replace this with so that only the Dear FirstName, is left.

Any help?

microsoft-word

share|improve this question

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1

New contributor

CoderKlipto is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  If you've created a form to generate the 200 letters, wouldn't it be easier to edit the form and re-merge the data?
  
  – fred_dot_u
  5 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Look into the "Mail merge" options of Word. I assume that you have made sure the recipients have accepted (you DID ask, didn't you!?) you sending this kind of send-outs.
  
  – Hannu
  4 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I have about 200 letters I need to be sending out through email to people, and right now the header is set up like this:

Dear FirstName MiddleName LastName,

But my boss would like it to just be set up like this:

Dear FirstName,

I have already put in these 200+ names so going back through and removing all middle and last names would take a bit of time. I have a program that will find and replace text to all 200 word documents by itself, but I have to tell the program what to search for and what to replace it with.

So, is there anyway I can do a find and replace in word that would change, for example, these greetings

Dear Bob Michael Barley,
Dear Michelle Renee Grace Steiner,
Dear Russell William John Willson,

to

Dear Bob, Dear Michelle, Dear Russell,

Notice how there are some people with 2 middle names which makes things a bit more complicated.

I know that this search syntax

r(*{1,}),

Can be used to find their full name plus the comma at the end and the r at the end of Dear. But I am not sure what I can use to replace this with so that only the Dear FirstName, is left.

Any help?

microsoft-word

share|improve this question

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1

New contributor

CoderKlipto is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

share|improve this question

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1

New contributor

CoderKlipto is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

share|improve this question

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1

New contributor

CoderKlipto is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1

New contributor

CoderKlipto is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.

asked 6 hours ago

CoderKliptoCoderKlipto

1