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Thanks! This looks like it might work. Will be back later if it doesn't.
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Hokie


"grammatim" wrote:

You could use a wildcard search to remove the parentheses and quotes
-- and in the same pass to apply, say, a color to the affected lines;
then sort the entries; then do another wildcard search to remove the
color and replace the parens and quotes.

On May 11, 2:40 pm, Wayne wrote:
Of course that would make it simple... to alphabetize... but then I'd have to
locate all of the poems among 986 pages of titles and put the quotation marks
back.
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"JoAnn Paules" wrote:
Can you strip out the punctuation marks?


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"Wayne" wrote in message
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How does one alphabetize a list (e.g. poems and novels, combined) that
includes some items with leading / trailing parentheses and some that
don't?