How do I Remove A Specific Amount of Characters from Lines in a Document?

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01-17-2016, 08:18 PM

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Windows 7 64bit How do I Remove A Specific Amount of Characters from Lines in a Document?

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You can do this with an ordinary Find/Replace, where:
Find = ^#^#^#^#^w-^w
Replace = nothing

If you only want to process a particular range, select it beforehand and answer 'No' when prompted to search the rest of the document.

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