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Move portions of multiple lines of text in a unusual way
Sorry if this is already posted, don't know what keywords/function names to
search for. I am using MS Word 2003. I have multiple lines of text and would like to move portions of it in a unusual way, for example...here's some data... apple red apple red grape green grape green banana yellow banana yellow What I would like to do is to find some "non-manual" way to move the all the colors over by 5 or more spaces so that they all now look like this apple red grape green etc Can this be done? Thanks much in advance. |
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Move portions of multiple lines of text in a unusual way
Assuming a tab character has been used between the first and second words,
move the tab stop (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm). If there are multiple tab characters, remove all but one (use Find and Replace to replace ^t^t with ^t until it quits) and then set a tab stop where you want the second column. If the words are separated by spaces, you can replace the spaces with tabs. You could also convert the entire thing to a table and arrange the columns as desired. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "duugg" wrote in message ... Sorry if this is already posted, don't know what keywords/function names to search for. I am using MS Word 2003. I have multiple lines of text and would like to move portions of it in a unusual way, for example...here's some data... apple red apple red grape green grape green banana yellow banana yellow What I would like to do is to find some "non-manual" way to move the all the colors over by 5 or more spaces so that they all now look like this apple red grape green etc Can this be done? Thanks much in advance. |
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Move portions of multiple lines of text in a unusual way
Thanks Susanne but it doesn't seem to help as this data is NOT tab delimited,
I also tried fixed width delimited when exporting to Excel and that is not working as planned either. This is truly a tough one. Common sense to me would be to use the drawing arrow (in the drawing toolbar) to highlight the portion of text (in this case, the colors) that you want to move and simply move it. I'm surprised that this can't be done. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Assuming a tab character has been used between the first and second words, move the tab stop (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm). If there are multiple tab characters, remove all but one (use Find and Replace to replace ^t^t with ^t until it quits) and then set a tab stop where you want the second column. If the words are separated by spaces, you can replace the spaces with tabs. You could also convert the entire thing to a table and arrange the columns as desired. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "duugg" wrote in message ... Sorry if this is already posted, don't know what keywords/function names to search for. I am using MS Word 2003. I have multiple lines of text and would like to move portions of it in a unusual way, for example...here's some data... apple red apple red grape green grape green banana yellow banana yellow What I would like to do is to find some "non-manual" way to move the all the colors over by 5 or more spaces so that they all now look like this apple red grape green etc Can this be done? Thanks much in advance. |
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Without knowing what is separating the two columns, it is impossible to give
you any further suggestions. Display nonprinting characters and tell us whether they are spaces or what. If you pasted the text from Excel, it will be in a table (Table | Show Gridlines). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "duugg" wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne but it doesn't seem to help as this data is NOT tab delimited, I also tried fixed width delimited when exporting to Excel and that is not working as planned either. This is truly a tough one. Common sense to me would be to use the drawing arrow (in the drawing toolbar) to highlight the portion of text (in this case, the colors) that you want to move and simply move it. I'm surprised that this can't be done. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Assuming a tab character has been used between the first and second words, move the tab stop (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm). If there are multiple tab characters, remove all but one (use Find and Replace to replace ^t^t with ^t until it quits) and then set a tab stop where you want the second column. If the words are separated by spaces, you can replace the spaces with tabs. You could also convert the entire thing to a table and arrange the columns as desired. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "duugg" wrote in message ... Sorry if this is already posted, don't know what keywords/function names to search for. I am using MS Word 2003. I have multiple lines of text and would like to move portions of it in a unusual way, for example...here's some data... apple red apple red grape green grape green banana yellow banana yellow What I would like to do is to find some "non-manual" way to move the all the colors over by 5 or more spaces so that they all now look like this apple red grape green etc Can this be done? Thanks much in advance. |
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Move portions of multiple lines of text in a unusual way
Data is posted from an old mainframe system. I think I'm going to have to do
this manually. Thanks anyways. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Without knowing what is separating the two columns, it is impossible to give you any further suggestions. Display nonprinting characters and tell us whether they are spaces or what. If you pasted the text from Excel, it will be in a table (Table | Show Gridlines). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "duugg" wrote in message ... Thanks Susanne but it doesn't seem to help as this data is NOT tab delimited, I also tried fixed width delimited when exporting to Excel and that is not working as planned either. This is truly a tough one. Common sense to me would be to use the drawing arrow (in the drawing toolbar) to highlight the portion of text (in this case, the colors) that you want to move and simply move it. I'm surprised that this can't be done. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Assuming a tab character has been used between the first and second words, move the tab stop (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/SettingTabs.htm). If there are multiple tab characters, remove all but one (use Find and Replace to replace ^t^t with ^t until it quits) and then set a tab stop where you want the second column. If the words are separated by spaces, you can replace the spaces with tabs. You could also convert the entire thing to a table and arrange the columns as desired. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "duugg" wrote in message ... Sorry if this is already posted, don't know what keywords/function names to search for. I am using MS Word 2003. I have multiple lines of text and would like to move portions of it in a unusual way, for example...here's some data... apple red apple red grape green grape green banana yellow banana yellow What I would like to do is to find some "non-manual" way to move the all the colors over by 5 or more spaces so that they all now look like this apple red grape green etc Can this be done? Thanks much in advance. |
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