At 03:36 15/11/2016 -0500, Linda Hull wrote:
Brian, Fantastic! This is what I needed!
Good-oh!
You are always so good!
How kind!
At 22:44 15/11/2016 -0500, Linda Hull wrote:
You said:
o Go to Edit | Find & Replace... (or Ctrl+F).
o Click More Options and tick "Regular expressions".
o Search for $ and Replace with a single space.
o Now search for USER: and replace with \n& .
When I put USER or CHANNEL in the 'Search for' box, and replace with
\n&, it's adding a space above the line where USER or CHANNEL occurs?
Er, it will!
I want it to append the line with USER or CHANNEL to the line above.
I understood from what you said before that you wanted to do this
with CHANNEL: but *not* with "USER:".
Did I do this wrong?
Possibly.
Your example text had multiple lines (paragraphs, in fact) for each
individual but also multiple individuals. I suggested two processes
here. The first one is to search for $ and replace with a single
space. This will run together not only all the paragraphs for one
individual but also those for all individuals. You now have a single
paragraph. That many seem wrong, but be patient.
If you want each user now to be in a separate paragraph (what you are
calling a "line"), perform a second, separate Find & Replace,
replacing "USER:" with "\n&" (no quotes, of course). This inserts a
paragraph break before each "USER:", so that each individual is now
in a separate paragraph (and will end up in a separate row of your
spreadsheet). This makes sense only *after* you have completed the
first Find & Replace. I suggested searching for "USER:" instead of
"USER" as you mention above, in case you happened to have the text
"USER" elsewhere in the text than as the marker of a new individual.
I don't know why you would search for "CHANNEL" - I didn't suggest
that. The whole point was to merge the paragraphs, wasn't it? If you
now want to remove some of those colons, you can now carry out a
third Find & Replace, this time searching for ([:alpha:]): (note that
trailing colon) and replacing with $1 .
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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