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Re: OK, this is so dumb as to be ridiculous, but it WON'T WORK!
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Alan Dow <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:38:19 +1000
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At 12:57 PM -0700 6/8/11, Bob Stern wrote:
>Why are you using PowerFind Pro instead of 
>PowerFind?  The bubble-shaped tokens in 
>PowerFind completely eliminate the problem of 
>literal text being treated as RegEx commands 
>(i.e., metacharacters).

And they also require you to use the relatively 
inefficient input method of menu click and drag.
Call me a dinosaur, but PowerFind Pro is much easier if you know the syntax.

Bob, this is definitely a bug.

You could work around it using character class syntax:

Find and Replace "[.][.]+ *","Š","Ea"

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