Looking for help with find and replace. I have a large document of 400+ chapters. A sample might be:

Chapter 99^p^t
text^p^t
more text^p^t
Chapter 100^p^t
text^p^t
more text^p^t

I want to change it to have an extra blank line after each "Chapter xxx"



Chapter 99^p^p^t
text^p^t
more text^p^t
Chapter 100^p^p^t
text^p^t
more text^p^t


With over 400 chapters its not exactly practical to add the extra returns manually.
Also is there a good on-line source for learning the ins and outs of find and replace?
Thanks, BZee

For instructions on the Replace function, see http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm

For this particular issue, with the wildcard option set search for

Chapter [0-9]{1,}^p

and replace with

^&

and with the cursor in the Replace with box, click Format. Now what you do here depends on how your document is already formatted.

The last thing you want to do is to add empty paragraphs. You could add Paragraph Format > Space After of (say) 24 points, which will increase the space after the Chapter headings, or better still you could create or modify a style for your Chapter headings complete with Space After and use the replace Format function to apply that style.

Styles make reformatting a much more pleasurable task than struggling with manual formatting.

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Also check out Greg Maxey's VBA Find and Replace. It may be helpful.

http://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/...d_replace.html

Thanks. I'll do some reading and experimenting.

I strongly recommend using heading styles (Heading 1, for example) for the chapter titles. Then you can define the amount of space before and after as part of the style, and you can use the headings to build a table of contents.

Although I've been using MSWord for years, I have not used it extensively nor done anything sophisticated. What I'm working with now is a 400+ chapter story that the author posted on-line for download. He posted in pdf format which is fine on a computer but doesn't work well on an e-reader so I uploaded it to Adobe for conversion to .docx format. The conversion is not perfect and I'm clean up the document for better display on my Kindle.

Text copied from PDFs, emails, web pages etc., often needs cleaning up to make it useful in Word. Common symptoms include paragraphs that have breaks at the end of each line. For a macro to do such clean-ups, see: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...html#post32907

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

My converted PDFs don't have that particular problem but maybe that macro will help in other ways. Thanks.

In that case, forget about Word.
Get Calibre, free ebook editor/manager/reader. It can import text in various formats and produce ebooks in both epub and kindle format; and send them to your Kindle after.

If you're converting to ebook much, check out the Mobileread forum, http://www.mobileread.com/forums/ for advice.

I answered in your other post. I do some perusal on mobileread.com forums