In Word 2013, wildcard that matches beginning of the document

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In Word 2013, using Search and Replace with or without wildcards enabled, I want to replace each occurrence of Hello at the beginning of a paragraph for Bye.

The search pattern:

^pHello

only works for non-first line and does not match Hello at the beginning of the very first paragraph of the document.

How can I match Hello at the beginning of the document? In Perl this would be done as s/^Hello/Bye/.

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1 Answers

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Wildcard to match the beginning of the document seems not to exist.

What I did was to add a paragraph mark at the start of the document, do my searches, then remove the paragraph mark. Here is how it looks like in Perl:

my $word = Win32::OLE->new ('Word.Application', 'Quit') or die $!;

$word->Selection->HomeKey ({Unit => wdStory}); # to the beginning of the doc
$word->Selection->TypeText ({Text => "\n"}); # add the ^p
$word->Selection->HomeKey ({Unit => wdStory}); # to the beginning of the doc

my $search = $document->Content->Find; 

$search->{Text}              = "^pHello";
$search->Replacement->{Text} = "^pBye";
$search->Execute ();

$word->Selection->Delete; # delete the ^p