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steven522 · 02-25-2010, 09:49 AM

Don't know if this will be helpful to you unless you have a version of MS Word.

I had several plain text files with lots of short stories in them that had been force-formatted to a max of 60 characters across with CRLF terminations. Looking at these on the jetbook made for an interesting read.

Connecting the jetbook to the PC directly, I edited the files on the SD card from with in Word to remove the extra "enters" on each line. Luckily, the original creator had followed each paragraph with a double "enter" to leave a blank line in-between.

I setup a macro within Word to do the following:
- Search for every paragraph/"enter" (in Word represented as "^p") within the file and replace with a space.
- Search for every double-space, which would be the "enter"-"enter" between paragraphs, and replace with the same "enter"-"enter" ("^p^p" within Word).

With this, I was able to load the file, launch the macro (button or key combo), and then save the file. Took about 5 seconds per file total. I went through the entire folder in few minutes.

Macro code is below for any cut-and-paste'ers out there:

Code:

Removed old code for newer code directly below

02-25-2010, 09:49 AM	#1
steven522 binomial: homo legentem Posts: 1,061 Karma: 25222222 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Alabama, USA Device: iriver Story HD; Archos 80 G9	Using MS Word to quick-reformat text Don't know if this will be helpful to you unless you have a version of MS Word. I had several plain text files with lots of short stories in them that had been force-formatted to a max of 60 characters across with CRLF terminations. Looking at these on the jetbook made for an interesting read. Connecting the jetbook to the PC directly, I edited the files on the SD card from with in Word to remove the extra "enters" on each line. Luckily, the original creator had followed each paragraph with a double "enter" to leave a blank line in-between. I setup a macro within Word to do the following: - Search for every paragraph/"enter" (in Word represented as "^p") within the file and replace with a space. - Search for every double-space, which would be the "enter"-"enter" between paragraphs, and replace with the same "enter"-"enter" ("^p^p" within Word). With this, I was able to load the file, launch the macro (button or key combo), and then save the file. Took about 5 seconds per file total. I went through the entire folder in few minutes. Macro code is below for any cut-and-paste'ers out there: Code: Removed old code for newer code directly below Last edited by steven522; 02-26-2010 at 11:03 AM.