How to add period character (^46) to word in dictionary?

[Alan]

I have noticed that in my abbreviations dictionary the entry:
et al.
does not work as I expected.

I want to find misspellings like ‶et. al.″ and ‶et al″ where the difference is a surplus period or a missing period. I think the problem is that I always have Use wildcards checked. This should mean that the period character is taken as a wildcard that matches any single character. I have tried escaping the period with a backslash (\) and a caret/Circumflex Accent (^) with no luck. Is there a way to match only the period character?

Alan

[admin]

I am not sure which tool of Atlantis you mean - the spelllchecker or "find/replace". But if you mean "find/replace", the period is not a wildcard in Atlantis.

The following “find what” wildcard pattern matches “et al” not followed by a period:

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|<et al>|[!.]

To find “et. al”, you can use the following “find what” wildcard pattern:

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<et. al>

If you mean the spellchecker, you cannot add spellcheck dictionary entries that would let you detect those incorrect forms of "et al."

[admin]

I suppose "batch find & replace all" would be quite useful when dealing with OCR'd documents.