Replacing dashes with en dashes

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From: Jay_F
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:41

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I'm very new to the scripting forum and I couldn't script something like this but ...

I wish I had a script that would search an entire document and replace all the dashes that appear between numbers with en dashes. (This happens in many references when referring to page numbers.) There's a limited amount numbers to replace but it's too time consuming to do all the possibilities one at a time.

Any ideas or help if there's something like this available would be appreciated?

Thanks... Jay

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