Advanced find & replace in MS Word

[jdb264c]

I'm editing a huge text, some 1500 pages, that originally was made as a badly formatted .pdf but is now in .docx. In the conversion of course a lot of the formatting errors was transferred.

All footnotes that in the text should be in superscript is normal and I want to convert them into superscript but don't know how. First I was thinking of doing a Find ".[any number]" since they all occur after a dot, but I realized that this would also make the dot superscripted. Also, I can't see any way to write something like this (pardon the difficulty to explain)

Find .[any digit]

Replace .[the same digit]

Anyone? Maybe I have to explain better... :)

[melon]

You're probably going to need to use something called Regular Expressions to do what you want:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010873051033.aspx

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

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

RegEx confuses the hell out of me so I can't really be much more help than provide those links and point you in the right direction. Someone else may know a better way or is more experienced with RegEx.