Dates Challenge

[alpaca]

Here's date challenge for all you Word experts!

I have a document (200+ page genealogy book) that has hundreds o
perhaps thousands of dates in it. Most are in the format "June 2
1985."

I would like to:

a. Go though the document and identify, somehow, all such instances a
"dates", fixing those that are improperly formatted so they now agre
100% with what Word recognizes as "dates" and are in, say, the forma
"MMM d yyyy."

b. I would then like to tell Word 'find all instances of "dates" an
change the format of them from "MMM d yyyy" to "dd MMMM yyyy" (fo
example).'

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks