'Smart' Deletion

[Guest]

I have a word report generated by external software that is rediculously
long. There are portions of the report that we would like to remove. Below is
a tiny snipit of how the report is set up:

E13 GR 0.000 -0.002 -0.002 -0.011 0.010 -0.001

T1 -0.020 -0.033 0.001 0.002 -0.006 0.088

T2 0.011 -0.004 -0.004 -0.008 -0.001 -0.012


+1 GR 0.000 -0.002 -0.001 -0.010 0.009 -0.001

T1 -0.011 -0.029 0.000 0.002 -0.005 0.088

T2 0.010 -0.003 -0.003 -0.008 -0.001 -0.011


+2 GR 0.000 -0.002 -0.001 -0.009 0.009 0.000

T1 -0.002 -0.025 0.000 0.002 -0.005 0.087

T2 0.008 -0.003 -0.002 -0.007 -0.001 -0.010

E1 0.010 0.003 -0.002 -0.006 -0.004 -0.033

E2 0.006 0.001 -0.011 -0.039 -0.005 -0.021

E3 -0.009 -0.002 0.001 -0.002 0.007 0.029


ALL of the sections I want to remove begin with a "+" followed by a number.
The actual number changes and the number of rows to remove are different
depending on which section it exists in. The only ending parameter I can
think of so far is an enpty line (two carriage returns in a row) before the
next section begins.

If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise I am going
through a 6600 page report by hand.

Thanks
NHMM

 

[Jay Freedman]

A wildcard replacement (explained at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm) can do this.

In the Replace dialog, click the More button and then check the 'Use
wildcards' option. Type this in the Find What box:

+[0-9]*^13^13

(include a space character at the beginning of the expression if that
actually occurs in your document the way it appears to occur in the
sample you showed). Leave the Replace With box blank, and click the
Replace All button.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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