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Subject:Re: [RMX:NL] Re: How do I do this [Word 2010]? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Slager Timothy J <Timothy -dot- Slager -at- dematic -dot- com>, Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:39:42 -0800
I was thinking of something like that. Does that take into account
that some of the terms are phrases so include spaces?
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Slager Timothy J
<Timothy -dot- Slager -at- dematic -dot- com> wrote:
> Jim,
> Try this:
> CTRL+H
> Find what: ([A-Z]@) ([A-Z][a-z]@>)
> Replace with: \1^t\2
> Replace All
> Now you have the tab character between Term and Definition and can convert text to table, which you can manipulate in Excel or something like.
> This assumes that the first character in the definition is upper case. If not, remove the second [A-Z].
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