Problem
i have huge 300 page document where in lot of Short forms in uppercase is used ie., CRT - cathode ray tube etc. i want list all these type of words in a table or find one by one is also fine. Here is a simple tip on how to find all uppercase words in a word document ONE BY ONE or find the words which contain all uppercase letters such as RECIPESTER.
Solution
- Open your document in Microsoft Word. Click "Find" button from the "Home" group to launch Find funtion built-in Microsoft Word. Or just press "Crtl+F" to call out "Find and Replace" dialog box.
- Click "More >>" button from the "Find and Replace" dialog box.
- Now you could set more search options. Check "Use wildcards" to enable wildcards while searching in the Word document.
- Type "[A-Z]" (NO Quotation Marks) into the "Find what" textbox. Then, press "Find Next" to start finding all uppercase words one by one.
- And you could see that word contains uppercase letters are hightlighted in the search result.
- To find words which contain all uppercase letters, you could use these wildcards: "[{A-Z}]{2,100}" (NO Quotation Marks). Here, "{2-100}" is the number limit of letters in a word, for example, RECIPESTER has 10 uppercase letters.
- Now click on "Find Next" button to proceed it. You could see the uppercase are hightlighted.

Would you have managed to find all uppercase words in a word document?
Tips
If you are using [{A-Z}]{2,100} wildcards, you can specify proper number according to your document.
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