I am an Excel guy and Word really trips me up. I am trying to reorder references in a technical document. When it is created, they are just placed randomly (as in CURRENT below). But I need to reorder them such that the "R" value (always a capitol R followed by a number) appear in order (FINAL DESIRED below). When reordered, they need to be linked up properly within the document. I think what needs to happen is that should go through an an intermediate step (INTERMEDIATE below) to avoid conflicts and then do a find/replace to final desired order. I think the process would go something like this:
- Find the first "R"+number (if less than 1000). For example, it could be R5.
- Rename R5 to R1001 and replace all other instances of R5 with R1001
- Start at beginning of document and find next "R"+number (if less than 1000) and change it to R1002. For the example, R8 would go to R1002.
- Go through this process until there are no "R"+number less than R1000
- Finally, rename R1001 to R1, R1002 to R2, etc. (I will manually add these).
I can donate $40 to the forum for this help.
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CURRENT:
example text [R5, R8] more test text [R33,R2] and still some more [R1] but not done yet [R8, R2, R33] and [R2, R5] plus [R9]
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FINAL DESIRED:
example text [R1, R2] more test text [R3,R4] and still some more [R5] but not done yet [R2, R4, R3] and [R4, R1] plus [R6]
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INTERMEDIATE:
example text [R1001, R1002] more test text [R1003,R1004] and still some more [R1005] but not done yet [R1002, R1004, R1003] and [R1004, R1001] plus [R1006]
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