Over on the Right Angels and Polo Bears blog, I’ve been testing the hot new AI out for editing. While it’s true that generative pretrained translators (GPTs) are advancing so fast that my post may be out of date by the time I edit it, the verdict remains that AI isn’t ready to take over copyediting jobs. In this post I find it can’t even write a useful Find & Replace sequence using wildcards. I’m sad about that, because writing those can be a brain twister!
Continue reading Using ChatGPT to Write Wildcard Searches →
You know how to search for exact words and phrases. Add wildcards to your terms and you’ll give Find and Replace a nitro boost!
What Wildcards Are
Continue reading Wildcards Are Nitro for Your Find & Replace →
Today’s tip comes from page 13 of the 2nd edition of Editing in Word:
Turn off Track Changes when using wildcards in a find and replace.
What Are Wildcards?
Wildcards are the elements that tell Word to do things like:
- search for a range of numbers — example: [0-9],
- or to treat search text as chunks of content — example \1 and \2.
Continue reading Track Changes, the Enemy of Wildcards →
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