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Download from Project Gutenberg Etext of Paradise Lost(Raben)
The file should be named plrabn11.txt or plrabn11.zip.
Open the text in Notepad.
Delete everything other than the lines which have to be numbered.
(Note there are breaks for 'Book x' within the lines, leave these for now)
Open MS Excel.
Back to Notepad. Select all. Copy.
In Excel click cell B1. Paste (Ctrl V)
In cell A1 enter the number 1, hit ENTER, enter the number 2 in A2.
Select cells A1 and A2 and drag down the column until you get to one of the Book x breaks in the lines and release to number the lines.
Move down the column to where the lines begin again. Start numbering again as above. I don't know how the lines are numbered in your book guide so you'll have to follow their pattern which may start from 1 (one) again or continue from where the earlier numbers finished.
OK, we've got 9000 plus lines. Wow!
Select column A and Column B. (Click on the 'A' at top of column, hold SHIFT and click on the 'B'). Copy. Open a blank Notebook file. Paste.
You now have a text file with the lines numbered. You can open it in whatever you use to make your ebooks.
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