[mso] Re: Changing text in Word to import to Excel
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:54:45 -0400
Hi Darlene...try replacing the Enters with Tabs
First replace the double Enters with something you don't use elsewhere in
the document, like an asterisk
Find ^p^p
Replace with *
Then find the single Enters and replace them with tabs
Find ^p
Replace with ^t
Then go back and find the asterisks and make them single Enters
Find *
Replace with ^p
Then highlight all the data and go to the Table menu and choose Convert Text
to Table and use tab as your deliminator.
Then you can copy/paste this table into Excel and put column headings, like
Name, Address, etc...then do a mail merge and use this Excel sheet as your
data source.
Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS
Linda's Computer Stop
http://personal-computer-tutor.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Darlene Davidson
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:32 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Changing text in Word to import to Excel
I have the following format in Word:
Amherst College(Enter)
Department of Biology(Enter)
Amherst, MA 01002(Enter)
(Enter)
University of Mass(Enter)
Amherst Campus(Enter)
Department of Biology(Enter)
Amherst, MA 01003 (Enter)
(Enter)
I have 436 addresses in Word. Some have three address fields, some have
four. I need to make labels from these addresses (30 per page, 3 across,
10 down). I have tried Find and Replace to replace paragraph markers with
spaces or commas, save as text and import into Excel to make a data file to
merge with Word labels. I am doing something wrong. Can someone help?
Thanks!
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