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oldbwl · 11-24-2010, 02:45 AM

I have a workflow which is serving me well. I use Calibre to organise my books and I have developed a series of processes by which I automate my conversions - mainly from PDF ->RTF -> epub. I do scan some materials and ABBYY takes care of the OCR.

I have a number of search and replace functions for Word 2010 which I have recorded into macros and they serve me well. But there is one aspect I have yet to crack and hopefully someone here can offer a suggestion.

I cannot create a search for when a line does not end with a fullstop followed by ^p^p.

I can detect when lines commence with a lower case letter and rejoin them to the prev paras. But some line breaks are occuring within capitalised phrases. The defining feature is the lack of the Full Stop followed by the two Para marks. I want to test for that condition and replace with a single space. Any ideas how this can be acheived in word?

11-24-2010, 02:45 AM	#1
oldbwl Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 164 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Old Ynysybwl Device: Sony PRS-300	macro - Search and Replace I have a workflow which is serving me well. I use Calibre to organise my books and I have developed a series of processes by which I automate my conversions - mainly from PDF ->RTF -> epub. I do scan some materials and ABBYY takes care of the OCR. I have a number of search and replace functions for Word 2010 which I have recorded into macros and they serve me well. But there is one aspect I have yet to crack and hopefully someone here can offer a suggestion. I cannot create a search for when a line does not end with a fullstop followed by ^p^p. I can detect when lines commence with a lower case letter and rejoin them to the prev paras. But some line breaks are occuring within capitalised phrases. The defining feature is the lack of the Full Stop followed by the two Para marks. I want to test for that condition and replace with a single space. Any ideas how this can be acheived in word?