Select all email addresses in Word

You can run regular expression searches in Word that will select all email addresses, so you can copy them out, or re-format them to all be lowercase, boldfaced, and so forth.

Bring up the Find tool and check off the 'Use wildcards' option in the 'More' section. Then enter this regular expression search:

[A-z,0-9]{1,}\@[A-z,0-9,\.]{1,}

. . . and click Find In . . . Main document. Each email address will be selected.

You can modify the Regex search to find emails which include a period in the name before the domain:

[A-z,0-9]{1,}\.[A-z,0-9]{1,}\@[A-z,0-9,\.]{1,}

VBA Code to Remove XE Codes

I tested it out this week and the below VBA code posted by Graham Mayor here, will successfully remove XE codes from a Word document.

Sub Macro1() Dim oFld As Field Dim strFldText Dim strAsk As String Dim bHidden As Boolean With ActiveWindow.View bHidden = .ShowHiddenText .ShowHiddenText = True End With For Each oFld In ActiveDocument.Range.Fields If oFld.Type = wdFieldIndexEntry Then oFld.Select strFldText = Replace(oFld.Code, "XE ", "") strAsk = MsgBox("Delete " & strFldText, vbYesNoCancel) If strAsk = vbYes Then oFld.Delete ElseIf strAsk = vbCancel Then GoTo Finish End If End If Next oFld Finish: With ActiveWindow.View .ShowHiddenText = bHidden End With End Sub

Troubleshooting the Conversion of Text to Notes with Notestripper

The Tip of the Night for May 26, 2015, discussed how to use the Add-in for Word, Notestripper, to help facilitate the insertion of hyperlinks in footnotes of a MS Word document. After the text of footnotes is stripped out to text at the end of a document, you may receive an error message from NoteSripper indicating that the number of note references does not match the number of notes when you try to convert them back to notes.

If this happens try the following. First search for blank spaces formatted as superscript using the Find tool in Word. (Go to the Format menu, select Font, and check off the 'superscript' box.) Any footnote number with a blank space before it will throw off Notestripper.

The Add-in will not read the notes themselves if any text is crossed out or marked for deletion with track changes in Word. Be sure to re-format this text and the text on the following line, or Notestripper will not read each separate line of notes.