Originally Posted by
VB-AN-IZ
All the examples you've provided effectively do the same thing – if it finds an "A" after the "}" character but not before it, it'll find text out of sequence from that point in the document.
Unless you're starting the Find with the insertion point after the first A} sequence in a paragraph, that simply isn't so. You could confirm that by doing a wildcard Find/Replace where:
Find = A\}(*^13)
Replace = X\1
Originally Posted by
VB-AN-IZ
I want to find/replace the "A" characters before the "}" character within each paragraph; if there isn't an "A" character before the "}" character in each paragraph, I want to stop the find process at the "}" character and restart it from the start of the next paragraph. So, searching only between the start of a paragraph and the "}" character.
Unless you're now saying that if there's a } before the first A} you want to skip the entire paragraph - which is a completely different proposition from what you previously said - the expression I gave you already does that if you don't start the Find with the insertion point after the first A} sequence in a paragraph.