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can find and replace instances of the "enter" key?
this is my first post and I hope i'm posting in the correct spot.
Hi Everyone! ok here's my problem: My Final exam is a comprehensive exam from all of the questions for our previous tests. The professors sent us all of these questions (in a word doc) as a study guide. i want to load them on my ipad as flash cards but the app i found needs a very specifically formatted spreadsheet (I'll get to that later). The questions are currently formatted this way: Question 1 is a question about something Answer a Answer b Answer c Answer d But I need to get rid of all the instances of the “enter” key and replace it with the “tab” key so that it formats it like this: Question 1 is a question about something Answer a Answer b Answer c Answer d I have done about 20 of them manually and it is taking forever and driving me insane, especially since I still have about 380 to go…. I tried using the “find and replace” option but even with the “special” button I have not found anything that will find instances of the “enter” key. Any ideas? I really do not want to spend the next several hours doing this manually. Thanks! (PS: It needs to be formatted that way so when i paste it into the spreadsheet, each question with the corresponding answers are on the same row, right now each answer is on a different row so the app has no idea what is going on). |
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Find: ^13
Replace with: ^t |
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Try ^p in the find box, and ^t in replace. I believe this should solve your issue.
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Are we sure the OP wants ALL hard returns changed to tabs? That seems unlikely.
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Perhaps when the OP relealizes that what he got was not what he wanted then he will post back making sure we know what he wants ;-)
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Ctrl-H gives you the Replace dialog.
Assuming that between questions there are two instances of the Enter key, you would first replace ^p^p with [paragraph], then replace ^p with ^t, then replace [paragraph] with ^p^p ^p is find and replace searching for a paragraph mark ^t is find and replace searching for a tab mark Basic Formatting in Microsoft Word |
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If the OP selects each question and its answers, then runs the Find/Replace only against that range, I believe the desired result will be obtained. Of course, if we had more information about the document's layout (eg double-paragraph breaks between questions) a better solution would surely emerge.
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Duplicate threads merged.
snunicycler: Please don't create duplicate threads. It simply wastes peoples' time retracing issues addressed elsewhere.
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