works perfect.
Thank you so much, and sorry for my MS Word ignorance.

Roy.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I don't see where I suggested using ^&1. What I said was, "^& formatted with
the appropriate heading level." By this I mean, type ^& in the "Replace
with" dialog. Then click Format, choose Style, and select Heading 1.

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"Roy" wrote in message
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1*^13 work to match the lines, but ^&1 doesn't place a heading, it just
adds
the literal 1 to the beginning of the next line.
What is the exact string I should type in the "Replace with" text box if I
want to add heading #1 to every line that begins with 1, ?

Thanks for all your help and time.

Roy.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Use ^13 instead of ^p. I forgot that * is available only when using
wildcards.

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"Roy" wrote in message
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1*^p is not a valid search criteria in Word2000. I get an error that
says
the
the special character ^p is not valid when wildcard mode is on.

So how can I match the following, and change the heading type?

1,a
2,b
3,c

Thank you for you r help.

Roy.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The Replace I described would be done in Word.

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"Roy" wrote in message
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Do you mean doing a regular exprerssion replace outside of word,
and
then
opening the text file in Word?

Roy.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If there are no numbers in the paragraphs other than the 1, 2,
3,
etc.,
you
could use Find and Replace to search for 1*^p and replace with
^&
formatted
with the appropriate heading level (Heading 1 for 1, Heading 2,
for
2,
etc.).

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"Roy" wrote in message
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Autoformat didn't help. I'll guess if I want to do it, I will
take
your
advice and write VBA code. Thanks for your help. (It seems
like a
simple
feature that I wish would be included in the product)

Roy.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Using a copy of your text file, try AutoFormat and see what
happens.

Otherwise, can you do it? Yes, by writing a separate vba
program
that
recognizes codes you put into your text file and applies
heading
styles
as
you designate in response to those codes. Enjoy.
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"Roy" wrote in message
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Your solution is only from working within Word. My issue
is
that I
have an
hierarchical information that I can generate a text file
from.
Then I
want
Word to take this text file and import it as an outline.
Can I
do
that?
Example:
Text file is (or any other format which I can
programmatically
generate):
1,A
2,B
2,C
1,D
2,E
3,G

Then Word needs to take this file and outline it like
this:

+ A ----B
| ----C
|
+ D-----E
|-------G

(A is the parent of B and C, D is a sibling of A and a
parent
of
E, E
is a
parent of E)

Does someone know of a way to do it?
Roy.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Apply appropriate heading styles and it will all fall
into
place
using
Outline view.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm
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"Roy" wrote in message

...
How can I create a word outline file from a text file.
I
can
format
the
text
file any way I want with the level information, but I
couldn't
find
any
way
to import this to Word. I have some kind of hierarchy
that
I
want
to
view
using Word outline (when I can see levels and expand
them
ans
search)