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 ===Tagging evberything coloured blue
-*search and destroy
+#search and destroy
-**double spaces
+*double spaces
-**Fields (ctrl-shift-F9)
+*Fields (ctrl-shift-F9)
-**bookmarks - there's a cool macro for this:
+*bookmarks - there's a cool macro for this:
-<nowiki>Sub RemoveAllBookmarks()
+ Sub RemoveAllBookmarks()
-    Dim objBookmark As bookmark
+     Dim objBookmark As bookmark
-    For Each objBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
+     For Each objBookmark In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
-        objBookmark.Delete
-    Next
+         objBookmark.Delete
-End Sub
-</nowiki>
+     Next
+ End Sub
-clear out all blue dashes - replace them with xxx
+#. Clear out all blue dashes - replace them with xxx
+#. Clear out all blue apostrophes - replace them with yyy
+#. Clear ot all blue spaces - replace them with qqq (this won't do the ones either side of the blue phrase)
+*Find: ([A-Z][a-z]{1,}) ([A-Z][a-z]{1,}) (use wildcards, font colour: blue)
+*Replace: \1qqq/2
-clear out all blue apostrophes - replace them with yyy
+#. Now your tags are all continuous blue strings. So brace them:
+*Find: <([A-Z][a-z]{1,})> (use wildcards, font colour: blue)
+*Replace: {{wikitag|\1}} (font colour blue)
+Now restore spaces, apostrophes and dashes.
+Mwah.
-clean out all blue spaces between words (this won't do the ones either side of the blue phrase)
-([A-Z][a-z]{1,}) ([A-Z][a-z]{1,})
-to
-\qq\2