How to do search for hyphens

[altdotcom]

I'm using Word 2010 (Windows 7). I converted a PDF to Word and I'm trying to clean things up. I have a lot of words with hyphens in the middle of them that shouldn't be there. What sort of an expression would I use to search for these and replace what I find, minus the hyphen? Thanks.
Clark

[Berton]

If it were me I'd just use the Edit, Find and Replace feature to delete the hyphens. Even with an expression or macro there will still remain the issue of whether the hyphen should actually exist in some instances, hopefully spell check or grammar check will see those.

[RetiredGeek]

Clark,

You can use the following regular expression in the Find what: box

(<[a-z,A-Z]*>)(-)(<[a-z,A-Z])

And this in the Replace with: box

\1\3

Make sure to check the Use wildcards check box.
FindandReplaceRegEx.JPG

Of course you'll try this on a COPY of your document!


HTH

[tonyl]

If you don't have any hyphens that you do want, just put a hyphen in the Find box and leave the Replace box blank. All hyphens will be replaced with...er, nothing.

[macropod]

For a fully-fledged macro to clean up such documents, see: http://windowssecrets.com/forums/sho...l=1#post859582