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Find & Replace two lines at once
I need to delete two consecutive lines a bunch of times in a single document,
so I thought finding them and replacing them with a single space would do the trick. I can't seem to get it to find more than one line at a time. I can't find the answer to this anywhere. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
Word's limit in Find and Replace is 255 characters.
Try the VBA newsgroups for a macro solution. Hope this helps. Summer www.docsliveonline.com " wrote in message ... I need to delete two consecutive lines a bunch of times in a single document, so I thought finding them and replacing them with a single space would do the trick. I can't seem to get it to find more than one line at a time. I can't find the answer to this anywhere. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
I counted the two lines, and there were 34 characters in all. If my question
still belongs in this other VBA newsgroup, please give me the link as I don't know what VBA stands for. "Summer" wrote: Word's limit in Find and Replace is 255 characters. Try the VBA newsgroups for a macro solution. Hope this helps. Summer www.docsliveonline.com " wrote in message ... I need to delete two consecutive lines a bunch of times in a single document, so I thought finding them and replacing them with a single space would do the trick. I can't seem to get it to find more than one line at a time. I can't find the answer to this anywhere. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
Try select (highlight) words less than 255 characters and CTRL H for Find
and Replace CTRL V (paste) in Find Replace with: Put a space or put a ### set of foreign characters if you need to do further replacing or don't put a space at all if not required. The hit Replace All This will work for less than 255 characters. Hope this helps. " wrote in message ... I counted the two lines, and there were 34 characters in all. If my question still belongs in this other VBA newsgroup, please give me the link as I don't know what VBA stands for. "Summer" wrote: Word's limit in Find and Replace is 255 characters. Try the VBA newsgroups for a macro solution. Hope this helps. Summer www.docsliveonline.com " wrote in message ... I need to delete two consecutive lines a bunch of times in a single document, so I thought finding them and replacing them with a single space would do the trick. I can't seem to get it to find more than one line at a time. I can't find the answer to this anywhere. |
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Another thing to check is More button - make sure you don't have any
checkboxes on. "Summer" wrote in message ... Try select (highlight) words less than 255 characters and CTRL H for Find and Replace CTRL V (paste) in Find Replace with: Put a space or put a ### set of foreign characters if you need to do further replacing or don't put a space at all if not required. The hit Replace All This will work for less than 255 characters. Hope this helps. " wrote in message ... I counted the two lines, and there were 34 characters in all. If my question still belongs in this other VBA newsgroup, please give me the link as I don't know what VBA stands for. "Summer" wrote: Word's limit in Find and Replace is 255 characters. Try the VBA newsgroups for a macro solution. Hope this helps. Summer www.docsliveonline.com " wrote in message ... I need to delete two consecutive lines a bunch of times in a single document, so I thought finding them and replacing them with a single space would do the trick. I can't seem to get it to find more than one line at a time. I can't find the answer to this anywhere. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
I have no idea what you just told me to do, so I'll just do this manually
over a few months. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
CTRL H means - to press the keys CTRL and H at the same time
(simultaneously) (referred to as shortcut keys). This brings a dialogue window up on screen in Word 2003 and previous versions. It also will work in 2007 to commence Find and Replace. The "More" button is a button that you can press on the open dialogue box after you press the keys on keyboard ""CTRL"and "H" together to bring Find and Replace dialogue box to screen. CTRL C Copy Highlight text with mouse press CTRL and V keys on keyboard to COPY CTRL V Paste Locate position to PASTE what you copied in your case Find: and press CTRL and V keys simultaneously. These are the most used keys in Office programmes. Hope this helps a little " wrote in message ... I have no idea what you just told me to do, so I'll just do this manually over a few months. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
I've already tried all these things, and I still can't get that thing to copy
and paste more than one line at a time. Imagine that I'm trying to copy and paste a whole paragraph into that find and replace thing, and it's only letting me paste the very first line of that paragraph. I need to have the entire paragraph in there, but pressing enter after the first line will only enable the find/replace function. I need to know how to copy and paste an entire paragraph into that little line in the find and replace function, and replace it with may another paragraph that contains more than one line. When I copy a paragraph and paste it into the first line that says find what, it only displays the very first line of the paragraph! I don't know how to get the entire paragraph to come up in that find what space!!! |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
Do not select a Paragraph mark ΒΆ in your copy.
" wrote in message ... I've already tried all these things, and I still can't get that thing to copy and paste more than one line at a time. Imagine that I'm trying to copy and paste a whole paragraph into that find and replace thing, and it's only letting me paste the very first line of that paragraph. I need to have the entire paragraph in there, but pressing enter after the first line will only enable the find/replace function. I need to know how to copy and paste an entire paragraph into that little line in the find and replace function, and replace it with may another paragraph that contains more than one line. When I copy a paragraph and paste it into the first line that says find what, it only displays the very first line of the paragraph! I don't know how to get the entire paragraph to come up in that find what space!!! |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
You can only have 255 characters not words. Characters make up words. It is
a fairly simple exercise. Perhaps if you paste the paragraph it would be easier to assess what you are trying to do. " wrote in message ... I've already tried all these things, and I still can't get that thing to copy and paste more than one line at a time. Imagine that I'm trying to copy and paste a whole paragraph into that find and replace thing, and it's only letting me paste the very first line of that paragraph. I need to have the entire paragraph in there, but pressing enter after the first line will only enable the find/replace function. I need to know how to copy and paste an entire paragraph into that little line in the find and replace function, and replace it with may another paragraph that contains more than one line. When I copy a paragraph and paste it into the first line that says find what, it only displays the very first line of the paragraph! I don't know how to get the entire paragraph to come up in that find what space!!! |
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the character limit isn't what I'm having trouble with. When I copy and paste
a paragraph into the "find what" section, it only shows the first line of the paragraph. I don't know how to explain this any clearer. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
the entire paragraph I'm trying to paste into the "find what" line is less
than 100 characters. The fact that I've hit enter after each line in the paragraph is what's making this difficult. Is there just no option to find multiple lines at once? |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
Let me make this very very easy to understand. Here's the "paragraph" I'm
trying to fix: TR TDFONT size=5 BidPay /TR TR TDFONT size=5 There are 58 characters in total. I'm trying to replace that with a single space. When I copy and paste that block of 58 characters into the "find what" section, the only thing that's displayed is the first line, which is: TR TDFONT When I continue and enter a single blank space into the "replace with" section, only that very first line is replaced with the single blank space. I need all six of those lines to be replaced with a single space. Surely there's got to be a way to do this, and I can't possibly be the only person having this problem. |
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Find & Replace two lines at once
If you have pressed Enter after each line, then you have a paragraph for
each line, not a single paragraph. You can still find this text, but you'll need to enter ^p in placeof the paragraph mark; paste the text of the first line, type ^p, then paste the text of the second line. -- 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. " wrote in message ... the entire paragraph I'm trying to paste into the "find what" line is less than 100 characters. The fact that I've hit enter after each line in the paragraph is what's making this difficult. Is there just no option to find multiple lines at once? |
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Graham, Suzanne, thanks for understanding my question!!! I finally got
everything fixed. Thank you so so so so much. |
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