I have created a textfile as a datasource for a mailmerge in microsoft word. This is working great. Now, i have fields which contains multiline values. When I use this field in the template it creates a "hard" line break (paragraph mark). What does I have to insert into the textfile, that word will creating a "soft" line break (manual line break)?
first:apologize for bad english grammar or vocabulary use.
the way is working with {quote} in ms-word, for example {quote 11} is line break or {quote 12} is page break.
to set it in your document, you should familiar with fields.
press Ctrl+F9 to insert field and then insert "quote ##" (## is any number charchode) in it. then press F9 to Enter and execute.
0x0b (i.e. "Vertical Tab") is probably the only way to do it, but I would check that you don't get document corruption in the output.
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Say you have the following text:
abc
123
abc
456
789
abc
abc
I want to remove all "abc" lines and just keep one. I don't mind sorting. The result should be like this:
abc
123
456
789
If the order of lines is not important
Sort lines alphabetically, if they aren't already, and perform these steps:
(based on this related question: How do I find and remove duplicate lines from a file using Regular Expressions?)
Control+F
Toggle "Replace mode"
Toggle "Use Regular Expression" (the icon with the .* symbol)
In the search field, type ^(.*)(\n\1)+$
In the "replace with" field, type $1
Click ("Replace All").
If the order of lines is important so you can't sort
In this case, either resort to a solution outside VS Code (see here), or - if your document is not very large and you don't mind spamming the Replace All button - follow the previous steps, but in steps 4 and 5, enter these:
(based on Remove specific duplicate lines without sorting)
Caution: Blocks for files with too many lines (1000+); may cause VS Code to crash; may introduce blank lines in some cases.
search: ((^[^\S$]*?(?=\S)(?:.*)+$)[\S\s]*?)^\2$(?:\n)?
replace with: $1
and then click the "Replace All" button as many times as there are duplicate occurrences.
You'll know it's enough when the line count stops decreasing when you click the button. Navigate to the last line of the document to keep an eye on that.
Coming in vscode v1.62 is a command to eliminate duplicate lines from a selection:
Delete Duplicate Lines in the Command Palette
or
editor.action.removeDuplicateLines as a command in a keybinding
(there is no default keybinding for this command)
Here is a very interesting extension: Transformer
Features:
Unique Lines As New Document
Unique Lines
Align CSV
Align To Cursor
Compact CSV
Copy To New Document
Count Duplicate Lines As New Document
Encode / Decode
Filter Lines As New Document
Filter Lines
Join Lines
JSON String As Text
Lines As JSON String Array
Normalize Diacritical Marks
Randomize Lines
Randomize Selections
Reverse Lines
Reverse Selections
Rotate Backward Selections
Rotate Forward Selections
Select Highlights
Select Lines
Selection As JSON String
Sort Lines By Length
Sort Lines
Sort Selections
Split Lines After
Split Lines Before
Split Lines
Trim Lines
Trim Selections
Unique Lines
Removes duplicate lines from the document Operates on selection or
current block if no selection
Unique Lines As New Document
Unique lines are opened in a new document Operates on selection or
current block if no selection
I haven't played with it much besides the "Unique Lines" command but it seems quite nicely done (including attempting a macro recorder!).
To add to #Marc.2377 's reply.
If the order is important and you don't care that you just keep the last of the duplicate lines, simply search for the following regexp if you want to only remove duplicte non-empty lines
^(.+)\n(?=(?:.*\n)*?\1$)
If you also want to remove duplicate empty lines, use * instead of +
^(.*)\n(?=(?:.*\n)*?\1$)
and replace with nothing.
This will take a line and try to find ahead some more (maybe 0) lines followed by the exact same line taken. It will remove the taken line.
This is just a one-shot regex. No need to spam the replace button.
This now also takes the comment of #awk into account, in where the last line has to have a linefeed in order to be identified as a duplicate. This is no longer the case now by excluding the \n from the line to search and adding a $ to the line found.
I just had the same issue and found the Visual Studio Code package "Sort lines". See the Visual Studio Code market place for details (e.g. Sort lines).
This package has the option "Sorting lines (unique)", which did it for me. Take care of any white spaces at the beginning/end of lines. They influence whether lines are considered unique or not.
Install the DupChecker extension, hit F1, and type "Check Duplicates".
It will check for duplicates and ask if you want to remove them.
Try find and replace with a regular expression.
Find:
^(.+)((?:\r?\n.*)*)(?:\r?\n\1)$
Replace:
$1$2
It is possible to introduce some variance in the first group.
If you don't mind some Vim in your VS Code. You can install Vim emulation plugin.
Then you can use vim commands
:sort u
It will sort lines and it will remove duplicates
Sublime Text 3
It has blisteringly fast native permutation functions.
Edit > Permute Lines > Unique or ⇧⌘U, and
Edit > Permute Selections > Unique
Visual Studio Code is my daily driver. But, I keep Sublime Text on standby for these situations.
Not actually in Visual Studio Code, but if it works, it works.
Open a new Excel spreadsheet
Paste the data into a column
Go to the Data tab
Select the column of data (if you haven't already)
Click Remove Duplicates (somewhat in the middle of the bar)
Click OK to remove duplicates.
It is not the best answer, as you specified Visual Studio Code, but as I said: If it works, it works :)
I use MailMerge with CSV file. The below is the format of CSV file.
SerialNo PledgeList
1 0001\t100\t200
So, my value PledgeList field includes \t .
So, Header Record Delimiters Dialog appear to choose field delimiter manually. I have to choose field delimiter manually when opening mailmerge document. So, I would like to know how to do not to appear Delimiter Dialog Box to choose field delimiter manually
Sample letter format is the following
«PAWNERNAME»
«ADDRESS»
Dear «PAWNERNAME»,
«PledgeList»
Yours Sincerely,
I want to include the Tab {PledgeList} in the below data
0001 TAB 1000 TAB 2000
This is a known problem described in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/189014
In a nutshell, the solution is to duplicate the Headers line in the CSV file. This confirms the delimiter for Word and should suppress the dialog.
SerialNo PledgeList
SerialNo PledgeList
1 0001\t100\t200
HOWEVER: Word will not automatically interpret \t as a tab sign. It will insert the literal text. You'd need to perform a Find/Replace on the mail merge result. It might be better if you format your data as follows, where the space in the PledgeList is a tab character (ANSI 9):
"SerialNo" "PledgeList"
"SerialNo ""PledgeList"
"1" "0001 100 200"
I have been trying to change the numbering style of my figure and table captions. All of my headings are in Roman numerical. However, I want Arabic numerical in my caption numbering. Could anyone tell me an easy way to do it at once? Below is an example:
Heading title: "Chapter V". My captions appear as "Figure V-2". However, I want them to appear as "Figure 5-2"
Also, is there any way I can select all figure caption fields at once and edit their field code?
To change in one caption: Press Alt-F9 and remove \* ARABIC .
Ctrl+A, F9 to update fields.
Now to change in all captions: try with a search and replace (Ctrl+H) to replace SEQ Figure \* Arabic \s 1 with SEQ Figure \s 1
To modify all field codes, you could use search & replace or you can modify field codes in VBA this way:
Sub ChangeAllFields()
'does not process headers/footers
Dim oFld As Field
For Each oFld In ActiveDocument.Fields
fld.Code = Replace(fld.Code, "SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1", "SEQ Figure \s 1")
Next oFld
End Sub
When you insert captions from now on, change the numbering in the dialog box that pops up. I think you'll have to change it every time, because Word (correctly) defaults to matching the Roman numerals in your chapter headings to Roman numerals in your captions. If you want to be abnormal, you'll have to change from the default every time you insert a caption, or change them all using one of the methods from Toon Flores.
p.s. I said "abnormal" because every style manual I've ever seen would frown on what you are doing.
How do I paste unformatted text (csv or tab delimited for instance) into LibreOffice Calc and then format it as numbers (without editing every cell by hand). When I paste the text below it puts a ' in front of everything so if I try to convert it to a number it's still text.
Text 0.01% 3% 5.1%
Asdf 0.2% 4% 6.0%
So for example if I paste special that as unformatted text with space delimiters and then convert 0.01% to a number (which would then say 0.0001 if it did what I wanted), it now says '0.01% in the cell.
To replace cells with leading single quote: ' (U+0027)
Press CTRL+H » Click More options » Check Regular expressions.
Search for ^.*$ and replace with &
That's kinda RegEx engine hack. It searches for everything before the cell start and replaces it with the existing cell content - but without the single quote. Have a look at the back reference if you want to read more.
This procedure is tested in LibreOffice 4.0.2. Paste as unformatted text, and choose the following options:
Select English as language, or some other language that uses periods as decimal separator.
Select "Detect special numbers".
Now the percentages will be pasted as numbers instead of text, and you can use the format options to display them the way you like.
I insert a column with the function CNUM() and reference to the text value. Then copy special paste: only numbers. Then supress the old column.
I have a Word document with fields of the reference variety, which occur in the form "[field].[field]"--in other words, there's a period between the two fields. I want to globally replace this with a space.
Word offers the ^d special character to search for fields, but for some reason the query "^d.^d" does not find anything. However, ".^d" does. Now comes the problem, however--what do I specify as the replacement text in order to retain the field code? If using regular expressions, I could use a "Find What Expression" such as \1, but with regexp ("wild card") mode the ^d is not permitted.
I guess I could write a macro...
I would like to add to Bibadia's solution.
An example of an index entry field; we want to change a name we misspelled.
Make sure hidden formatting is displayed (toggle with SHIFT+CTRL+F8).
Make sure wildcards option is not selected. To search for fields, use the opening and closing field braces code (optionally use ^w for spaces, as Bibadia suggested):^19 XE "Deo, John" ^21
Replace won't recognize field braces character, but will allow to insert the clipboard's content. ;). To do that, insert in text the correct entry. CTRL+F9 to insert field and type:XE "Doe, John"
Select the field above and copy
Use ^c in the replace box
Hit Replace All
Ta-da!
It's usually better to go the macro route when finding fields because, as you say, the find algorithm that Word uses doesn't work the way you might hope with fields.
But if you know exactly what the fields contain, you can specify a search pattern that will probably work (however not in wildcard mode).
For example, if you want to look for figure number field pairs such as
{ STYLEREF 1 \s }.{ SEQ Figure \* ARABIC \s 1 }
(which would typically be the same set of fields everywhere in the document)
If you only really need to look for the following:
{ STYLEREF 1 \s }.<any field>
you could ensure that field codes are displayed and search for
^d STYLEREF 1 \s ^21.^d
or
^19 STYLEREF 1 \s ^21.^19
If you need to be more precise, you can spell out the second field as well.
"^d" only works for finding the field beginning, not the field end.
It's a shame that ^w wants to find at least 1 whitespace character because otherwise it would be more robust to look for
^19^wSTYLEREF^w1^w\s^w^21.^19
Perhaps someone else knows how to work around that without using wildcards?
Torzaburo,
I suggest that you do this using a macro. You can start by recording the macro, and later refining your processing steps within the macro.
First turn on the hidden characters by navigating to Home > Paragraph > toggle the show/hide Paragraph symbol. Also, select all and toggle the field codes on (right-click and select "Toggle Field Codes".
Open a new blank Word doc in addition to the one you have open. You will use this later. Start the macro recording and find the field using the "^d" (field code) as you said.
When the field is found, copy only the field text within the brackets, and not the full field reference. While the macro is still recording, ALT + TAB to the new blank document and paste the field code in as plain text.
At this point, do the necessary find & replace processing to the field codes. Highlight the processed field codes, copy, ALT + TAB back to the original document, and paste back between the { } brackets.
Stop the macro recording. Add any further custom processing to the macro VBA.
Select-All and re-toggle the field codes. Update the field codes.
You don't need a macro. Just toggle all field codes on by using Alt+F9. Then do a find and replace for what you want to change. Once the replacement is complete, use Alt+F9 again to toggle the field codes back off.
Disclaimer: I didn't originate this solution, but it's clean and elegant and I thought it should be included here:
(Adapted from Search & Replace Field Codes in Word):
Create or find a single instance of the field you want to convert text to
Toggle Field Codes visible (AltF9)
Copy the code for the field you want to use to the Clipboard (highlight and CtrlC)
Open the Replace dialog box (CtrlH), insert the text you want to replace in the Find What box and then enter ^c in the Replace With box.
This will replace your text with the contents of the Clipboard, turning it into the field code you copied in step 3. It also copies formatting information (font, color, etc.), to control how the field will appear when hidden. (Caveat: I've tested this with Word 2003 under Windows 7 only.)
Coming in late on this, probably way too late for Beth (sorry Beth). And this may not be quite what Beth was looking for. But for anyone interested ...
It sounds like Beth may have created captions throughout the document using INSERT CAPTION (hence the presence of field codes). This means these captions will have been (automatically) created in CAPTION style.
To globally replace the separator "." with " " (space) in such captions, take two steps:
[1] Go to REFERENCES | INSERT CAPTION, then click on NUMBERING and replace the SEPARATOR "." with "EM-DASH". This will replace all separators in captions for the selected label in the CAPTION Window. If you have other labels in use in the document (e.g. FIGURE), select the other labels one by one and repeat this process.
[2] Do a find/replace searching for special character "em-dash" (^+) in style CAPTION, replacing with " ". Click REPLACE ALL.
Voila!
NOTE: This presumes that em-dash does not appear in the caption text anywhere. If it does, then you'll need to do a pre- and post- "fiddle" to ensure these em-dashes are not touched by the global replace above.
The "pre-fiddle" is to do a global find/replace across captions, replacing the em-dash ("^+") with some other string (e.g. "EM-DASH") that doesn't ever occur in any caption's text. Then you do the separator change as described above. Finally, the "post-fiddle" is to restore the em-dashes that were in the captions, by doing a global replace of the string "EM-DASH" with the actual em-dash character "^+".