This is the TranslateMedia guide for the use of regexes in Word.

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2. Wildcards & Regular expressions TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

3. This is a guide for the use of regexes in Word. Wildcards seem different according to the program you use them in (Google, Memoq,…) Memoq has its own regex search feature (Auto-translatables window), but better use Word (easier + live double-checking) TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

5. Preparing files for translationTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

7. References in a catalogue

8. Names

9. Company registration names

10. etcTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

13. * = any number of characters

14. ! = any but the character that followsTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

16. > = end of a word

17. ^13 = ¶TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

19. [3-6] = any number between 3 and 6 included

20. [a-z] = any lower case letter

21. [A-Z] = any upper case letter

22. [aAiI] = a or A or i or I

23. etcTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

25. 5{6,7} = 555555 or 5555555

26. [A-Z]{4} = any sequence of four capital letters

27. [0-9]{3} = any sequence of three numbers

28. @ = one or more occurrences of previous characterTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

30. lt;

32. etcTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

33. Example TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

34. Copy-paste in WORD Note: the search option does not support wildcards in the Notepad (TXT files). TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

35. Find and Replace window Ctrl + H Click More > > button TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

36. Find and Replace window Tick Use wildcards box Enter a space in the Replace with field TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

38. Numbers in titleTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

39. Word count in Memoq Trados-like word count does not count numbers (isolated sequences of numbers) TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

40. Though… TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

42. [A-Z]{4}[0-9]{2,3}[A-Z]{2}[0-9]([A-Z]{4})([0-9]{2,3})([A-Z]{2})[0-9] -> You can add brackets to make it clearer. They will not be taken into account in the search. But you cannot add spaces, for they are searched for as characters. If you want to search for brackets, you have to put them between square brackets. TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

43. [A-Z]{4}[0-9]{2,3}[A-Z]{2}[0-9]*^13·x· TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

45. When creating a regex, make sure it will not delete anything you need to count

46. Still a rough count, unless you spend time going into details (counted as repetitions then)TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

48. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010873041033.aspx

49. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htmTranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

50. In Memoq (Auto-translatables) TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

53. $2 -> according to position in digit sequence

54. $3 …TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.

55. Link http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CAT-Tools/MemoQ/Tips_and_Tricks#Using_auto-translatables_for_number_format_conversion TranslateMedia London | New York | Paris | Munich | Hong Kong Accurate. Punctual. Confidential.