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Old 06-21-2023, 06:57 AM
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I'm wanting to edit a 70 page Word document. It has time on every-other-line. Format for the time is **:** like 11:30.. What I'd like to do is to remove the time line completely and the resulting white space. I can do a search for the colon but cannot do a replace with del del or backspaces. Then I'd like to remove the white spaces left by the removed time.
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Old 06-21-2023, 09:49 AM
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Try the following using Wild Cards in a replace with a COPY of your document. Find:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]^13




After a Replace, Ctrl+Z will restore things. You may want a space in the replace-with box.
If that leaves out ones with single digits in the time, then run it again without the first [0-9]


See Finding and replacing characters using wildcards.
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I'll try the above and report back.

Last edited by lbeck; 06-21-2023 at 10:14 AM. Reason: Want to respond to suggestion
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Old 06-21-2023, 11:00 AM
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Try the following using Wild Cards in a replace with a COPY of your document. Find:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]^13




After a Replace, Ctrl+Z will restore things. You may want a space in the replace-with box.
If that leaves out ones with single digits in the time, then run it again without the first [0-9]


See Finding and replacing characters using wildcards.
That Worked!! Thanks.

I've never used wildcards in text cut/paste. I really appreciate your help. It has saved me a lot of work.
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Old 06-21-2023, 12:47 PM
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You are welcome.

There are others here who are far more proficient than am I when using WildCards.
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