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public:nnels:etext:regex [2018/07/12 16:49]
leah.brochu 		public:nnels:etext:regex [2018/08/17 05:06]
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 [[https://support.office.com/en-ca/article/Find-and-replace-text-and-other-data-in-your-Word-2010-files-c6728c16-469e-43cd-afe4-7708c6c779b7?ui=en-US&rs=en-CA&ad=CA#__toc282774574|Using wildcards in Microsoft Word]] (this is similar to regular expressions, but Word has a lot of its own syntax) [[https://support.office.com/en-ca/article/Find-and-replace-text-and-other-data-in-your-Word-2010-files-c6728c16-469e-43cd-afe4-7708c6c779b7?ui=en-US&rs=en-CA&ad=CA#__toc282774574|Using wildcards in Microsoft Word]] (this is similar to regular expressions, but Word has a lot of its own syntax)
    
-  * Word has a lot of options to find letters (^$) and numbers (^#) but these only work with the wildcard option //off// (which it is by default). Only turn the wildcard option on if you're using regex options. Read the info page carefully on when things apply with the wildcard option on/off.+  * Word has a lot of options to find letters (^$) and numbers (^#) when using the non-regex [[public:nnels:etext:find-and-replace|Find & Replace]], but these only work with the wildcard option //off// (which it is by default). Only turn the wildcard option on if you're using regex options. Read the info page carefully on when things apply with the wildcard option on/off.
  
   * A lot of the codes for special characters (e.g. page break) are under the "Special..." button.   * A lot of the codes for special characters (e.g. page break) are under the "Special..." button.
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 **PROBLEM**: There are extra paragraph breaks. We want to keep the real paragraph breaks and remove the fake extra paragraph breaks.   **PROBLEM**: There are extra paragraph breaks. We want to keep the real paragraph breaks and remove the fake extra paragraph breaks.  
  
-**SOLUTION**: Use MS Word's find and replace to remove the extra paragraph breaks using special Word symbols. +**SOLUTION**: See: [[public:nnels:etext:find-and-replace|Find & Replace]]
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-Find: ''^p^p'' (you can also search for more than 2 paragraph breaks, i.e. ''^p^p^p'') +
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-Replace with: ''^p''+
 </WRAP> </WRAP>
  
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 **PROBLEM**: There are newlines/line breaks (↵) instead of paragraph marks (¶). **PROBLEM**: There are newlines/line breaks (↵) instead of paragraph marks (¶).
  
-**SOLUTION**: Find and remove all line breaks and replace with a single paragraph break. +**SOLUTION**: See: [[public:nnels:etext:find-and-replace|Find & Replace]]
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-Find: ''^m'' +
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-Replace with: ''^p'' +
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-In LibreOffice, replace all ''\n'' with ''\p'' to convert them to paragraphs.+
 </WRAP> </WRAP>
  
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 ''231(paragraph break)MacG_9781770494220_5p_all_r1.indd 231(paragraph break)10/27/14 11:56 AM(paragraph break)'' ''231(paragraph break)MacG_9781770494220_5p_all_r1.indd 231(paragraph break)10/27/14 11:56 AM(paragraph break)''
  
-**SOLUTION**: Without using wildcards: +**SOLUTION**: See: [[public:nnels:etext:find-and-replace|Find & Replace]]
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-Find:  ''^#^#^#^pMacG_9781770494220_5p_all_r1.indd ^#^#^#^p10/27/14 11:56 AM^p'' +
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-Replace with: nothing. If you're doing a paginated title, replace with page breaks. +
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-You will need to remove one of the ^# at the beginning and after the .indd to remove it for 2 digit page numbers, and one last time for single digit page numbers. The following screenshot is an example with a 1-digit page number (see below), followed by the command used to isolate all such instances.  +
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-<WRAP center round box 60%> +
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-{{:nnels:documentation:content:production:screen_shot_2015-08-06_at_6.10.55_pm.png?300|}} +
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-Find: ^#^pMacG_9781770494220_5p_all_r1.indd ^#^p10/27/14 11:56 AM^p +
-</WRAP> +
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-You will also need to do it with the leading ^#^p to catch the footer text that do not have any page numbers with it.+
 </WRAP> </WRAP>
  
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