Is there a way to extract various text in Word?

eNGiNe · #4 07-08-2013, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Charles Kenyon

Text pasted from web pages, or imported or scanned, is often formatted like junk. Web pages, though, may contain styles, maybe.

I was wondering whether any textual consistency, such as {name of author}. {name of book} might, just perhaps, make the content amenable to grep and a text editor. Then OP could add style tags, move the content back to Word and use search/replace to apply styles.

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