Hi Doug,
Thanks for the tips. What you say is exactly correct. Basically what i have
is a word document with a list of contacts. From that all i need is the name
and country and email address. Each entry is identically ordered (name,
country, mailing address, other address,tel, fax, email, web page, category,
CSO notes). basically what i want to do is delete everything from 'Mailing
address' to 'email' and replace it with a ',' with no spaces before or after
the comma. i will then be able to save this as *.csv and import it into
Outlook as a contact base (after applying the same process to what appears
after the email address).
I hope this is more informative.
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
How similar are the entries? and where did the email address come from? and
is this really what you want:
AACC - Association Algérienne de Lutte Contre la Corruption
with no space between the , and the start of the email address.
If you give full information, you will have a much better chance of getting
a useful response.
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"Bonni" wrote in message
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Hi,
Its a little more complex than that. here is an actual example:
? AACC - Association Algérienne de Lutte Contre la Corruption (Algeria)
Mailing address: Centre Familial de Ben Aknoun Alger 16 Algeria
Other address: Tel.: Fax: E-mail: Web page: http://www.transparency.org/
Category: 6. CSO Notes:
would need to become:
AACC - Association Algérienne de Lutte Contre la Corruption
any ideas? i know that i would need to do it twice to remove whatever is
before the mail address and that which comes after the address.
thanks.
"Poprivet" wrote:
Bonni wrote:
Hi,
I need to delete certain sections of text in a word doc. and replace
it with ','
for example:
the cat sat on the mat
would need to become:
the,mat
i have 4000 lines of this and do not want to have to manually delete
all the uneccessary text.
Any pointers?
CTRL-H will bring up the Replace dialog box. PUt what you have in the
top
line, what you wnat it to be inthe second box, try a couple of replaces
and
if it works toyour liking, hit Replace All.