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Old 06-29-2019, 03:10 PM
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Not only are your 'PL_' and trailing strings like '3617A026' separated by a paragraph break but there's also a string of spaces (i.e. ' ') before the paragraph break. To fix that, do an ordinary Find/Replace, with:
Find = ^w^p
Replace = ^p
before the wildcard Find/Replace.
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