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Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find"
line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Exactly what are you doing, and what result are you getting instead of what
you expected? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jim" wrote in message ... Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses -
which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of email
addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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If the items are each on a separate line then the line will be terminated
with a line break or more likely a paragraph break ^p or ^13 Displaying the formatting characters will indicate which. or Do a wildcard search for [^11^13] replace with , or ,^& depending on whether you want to lose the line breaks or not. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of email addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Thanks but still can't figure it out. I did it a long time ago and have
forgotten the process. "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the items are each on a separate line then the line will be terminated with a line break or more likely a paragraph break ^p or ^13 Displaying the formatting characters will indicate which. or Do a wildcard search for [^11^13] replace with , or ,^& depending on whether you want to lose the line breaks or not. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of email addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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CTRL+H
In the top box enter [^11^13] In the bottom box enter ,^& or , Click 'More' Check Use Wildcards. Click replace all -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still can't figure it out. I did it a long time ago and have forgotten the process. "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the items are each on a separate line then the line will be terminated with a line break or more likely a paragraph break ^p or ^13 Displaying the formatting characters will indicate which. or Do a wildcard search for [^11^13] replace with , or ,^& depending on whether you want to lose the line breaks or not. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of email addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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thanks Graham but when I did that it input one comma at the very end of the
list that I have about 200 emails in. Just an FYI, I do start with the cursor at the beginning of the list. Looks like we are close but not quite there. Thanks for all your help, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: CTRL+H In the top box enter [^11^13] In the bottom box enter ,^& or , Click 'More' Check Use Wildcards. Click replace all -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still can't figure it out. I did it a long time ago and have forgotten the process. "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the items are each on a separate line then the line will be terminated with a line break or more likely a paragraph break ^p or ^13 Displaying the formatting characters will indicate which. or Do a wildcard search for [^11^13] replace with , or ,^& depending on whether you want to lose the line breaks or not. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of email addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Hi Jim,
Since it's a 'row' of email addresses, one would expect each address to be separated by at least a space. In that case, you could use Find/Replace to find every space character (ie ' ') and replace it by a comma followed by a space (ie ', '). If you end up with multiple comma-space pairs between the email addresses, that means there were multiple spaces between the email addresses; simply use Find/Replace to find every dual comma-space pair (ie ', , ') and replace it by a single comma-space pair (ie ', '). -- Cheers macropod [Microsoft MVP - Word] "Jim" wrote in message ... Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Yes, start with the cursor at the top.
Send me a copy of the document and let's see what we are dealing with. You can use the link on the home page of my web site. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: thanks Graham but when I did that it input one comma at the very end of the list that I have about 200 emails in. Just an FYI, I do start with the cursor at the beginning of the list. Looks like we are close but not quite there. Thanks for all your help, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: CTRL+H In the top box enter [^11^13] In the bottom box enter ,^& or , Click 'More' Check Use Wildcards. Click replace all -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still can't figure it out. I did it a long time ago and have forgotten the process. "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the items are each on a separate line then the line will be terminated with a line break or more likely a paragraph break ^p or ^13 Displaying the formatting characters will indicate which. or Do a wildcard search for [^11^13] replace with , or ,^& depending on whether you want to lose the line breaks or not. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of email addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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There is no symbol for a space; you just press the spacebar. But it is clear
from your example that you have some kind of break. If ^l (note that that is a lowercase L) doesn't work and ^p doesn't work, then ^13 might. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jim" wrote in message ... Thanks but still not exactly sure what you mean. I have a long list of addresses in a row and am looking for the "special characters" in "find and replace" to add commas after each email address. What is the symbol for space? I have tried find "manuel line break" "^l "and replace with comma and it doesn't work. The emails are listed in a row: see below example judy @gmail.com Thanks, Jim "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the ¶ button (CTRL+*) to identify the character between the addresses - which from your description is probably a space. Replace with comma + space. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jim wrote: Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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Thanks you guys but I tried everything and could not get it to do the task.
However, I did go to "textpad.com" and download thier free trial and it did exactly what I needed. Thanks anyway, Jim "macropod" wrote: Hi Jim, Since it's a 'row' of email addresses, one would expect each address to be separated by at least a space. In that case, you could use Find/Replace to find every space character (ie ' ') and replace it by a comma followed by a space (ie ', '). If you end up with multiple comma-space pairs between the email addresses, that means there were multiple spaces between the email addresses; simply use Find/Replace to find every dual comma-space pair (ie ', , ') and replace it by a single comma-space pair (ie ', '). -- Cheers macropod [Microsoft MVP - Word] "Jim" wrote in message ... Trying to add a comma to a row of email addresses. I thoght I woullld "find" line break and "replace" with comma but doessn't work. Help |
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