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Search for all web adresses in the current document with just a single search expression

Dear Experts:

I got dozens of website addresses in the current document. They are all just plain text not fields.

There are three possible make-ups of these adresses, e.g.

1.
www.basf.com
www.oracle.com

2.
http://www.microsoft.com
http://linkedin.com

3.
https://www.xing.com
https://www.microsoft.com

Is there the possibility of searching them all with just a single search expression, e.g. with a wildcard search.

Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Regards, Andreas
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Searching for (.co) will show all occurences of ".com" and ".co.uk". The brackets tell the search to look for an expression.
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Hi Rob,

ok, thank you very much for your swift response. As a matter of fact your expression regrettably is not what I was looking for.

In the meantime I have come up with one expression which is useful for my purpose:
[w]{3}.*.*> (wildcards checked)

Will do some more research and then get back to the forum.

Thank you very much for your help.
That won't find the entries that are like your LinkedIn.com example as it doesn't have the "www" part or the first "."
I know Rob, I am working on it. Thank you, Rob
Hi Rob:
I found an easy solution to my problem:

I run the 'autoformat as you type' option on the document with all these e-mail adresses and hyperlink paths that do not have hyperlink properties (just plain text).

I uncheck all the possibilities in this dialog with the exception of 'Internet and Network paths with hyperlinks'

I press enter and the plain text network paths and e-mail adresses are converted to hyperlink fields.

Thats it.

Regards, Andreas
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