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I have a document with some position information in the form
x= a,aaa,aaa y = bbb,bbb This information is repeated quite a few times in the document. Is there a way for me to grab only this text and put it into a spread sheet, comma delimited file, or something similar? Thanks for the help. |
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If you can define a wild card search that will find every instance of this
pattern, you can use "Highlight all items found." After using Find All, click the document title bar to switch the focus back to the document with the found items still selected. Ctrl+C to copy, then Ctrl+V to paste into a new document. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "BDB" wrote in message news I have a document with some position information in the form x= a,aaa,aaa y = bbb,bbb This information is repeated quite a few times in the document. Is there a way for me to grab only this text and put it into a spread sheet, comma delimited file, or something similar? Thanks for the help. |
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To: BDB,
I think you need to be more precise in what you're asking. For example: Are we talking about "x=" or does "x" represent any number? If it is "x=", then is it always "x=" or sometimes "x =" (with a space)? Is the text following "x=" numbers or something else? Is there always three items seperated by comma following "x=", or are there some times only two groups, or sometimes four groups? The same type of questions go for "y =". In your example, you wrote "x=" without a space, but "y =" with a space, is that significant, or no? Are there always three items after "x=", but always two items after "y ="? And, finially, what is in the rest of the text. Can we search for "x=" knowing that "x=" does not appear in the rest of the document in some other context? Or do we have to be more specific and search for only "x=" when followed by 3 items seperated by commas? It can be done, if you can be more precise. Steven Craig Miller "BDB" wrote: I have a document with some position information in the form x= a,aaa,aaa y = bbb,bbb This information is repeated quite a few times in the document. Is there a way for me to grab only this text and put it into a spread sheet, comma delimited file, or something similar? Thanks for the help. |
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Thanks. This is perfect.
Sorry if wasn't much of a challenge. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you can define a wild card search that will find every instance of this pattern, you can use "Highlight all items found." After using Find All, click the document title bar to switch the focus back to the document with the found items still selected. Ctrl+C to copy, then Ctrl+V to paste into a new document. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "BDB" wrote in message news I have a document with some position information in the form x= a,aaa,aaa y = bbb,bbb This information is repeated quite a few times in the document. Is there a way for me to grab only this text and put it into a spread sheet, comma delimited file, or something similar? Thanks for the help. |
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It would have been quite a challenge if you'd asked me to come up with the
wildcard syntax required. g -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "BDB" wrote in message ... Thanks. This is perfect. Sorry if wasn't much of a challenge. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you can define a wild card search that will find every instance of this pattern, you can use "Highlight all items found." After using Find All, click the document title bar to switch the focus back to the document with the found items still selected. Ctrl+C to copy, then Ctrl+V to paste into a new document. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "BDB" wrote in message news I have a document with some position information in the form x= a,aaa,aaa y = bbb,bbb This information is repeated quite a few times in the document. Is there a way for me to grab only this text and put it into a spread sheet, comma delimited file, or something similar? Thanks for the help. |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
It would have been quite a challenge if you'd asked me to come up with the wildcard syntax required. There is the old saw, "the devil is in the details." Often success or failure depends on the smallest of detail. For all the marvelous deeds of a computer, it is pretty stupid, it only does what it is told, it doesn't have the intelligence to do what we want instead. g Steven Craig Miller |
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