Using Regular expressions in Replace

[excel_hari]

Hi,

Is it possible to use regular expressions to do a find/replace in Word
document.

I copied some data from an application in to word like this:-

asd
qwe
zxc
vbn
ghj
yui


I wanted to transpose it to a single row with a space (by doing a
replace on \n )
asd qwe zxc vbn ghj yui

(I could usually do such stuff with Textpad and want to know how to do
in Winword)

Regards,
HP
India

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Using Edit>Replace, enter either ^p or ^l in the Find what control and put a
space in the Replace with control.

Whether you need the ^p or ^l will depend on whether each item is in a
separate paragraph, in which case the line will terminate with a ¶ when you
click on the Show/Hide button on the toolbar (the one with the ¶ icon). For
that case, you would use ^p. If each line does not terminate in a ¶, use ^l

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Hari]

Doug,

Thanks a lot for this. This will certainly help me a lot.

regards,
HP
India