Howard,

If it applies to you case you could use a literal find/replace.
Uncheck the Grep checkbox in the Find/Replace window.

    Find: .1
    Replace: .33
    
    Find: .2
    Replace: .67
    
Just my .2 cents.

Best Regards,

Jean

On Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 12:21:53 AM UTC+1 Howard wrote:

> Patrick,
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Howard
>
> On Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 5:24:21 pm UTC-4 Patrick Woolsey wrote:
>
>> On 3/16/22 at 3:10 PM, [email protected] (Howard) wrote:
>>
>> >In *Find: ^(\d+?)\.1 *what is the purpose of the question mark? 
>> >I know what *\d+* does.
>> >
>>
>> It makes matching "non-greedy", so the pattern won't try to 
>> extend beyond the first possible match.
>>
>>
>> [For details, please see "Non-Greedy Quantifiers" in Chapter 8 
>> (page 201) of the ubiquitous PDF manual. :-) ]
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Patrick Woolsey
>> ==
>> Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>
>>
>>

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