Find/Replace multiple items
Posted: 2008-02-26 14:20:51
Pretend I have no idea what I'm doing and that I know nothing about perl.
I have done "Record Marcos" in MS Word and done some editing of those macros.
If I had a series of find/replace commands, what would the structure of that be? I can figure out the regular expressions, but what would the blank object be... sort of like the shell of an html document.
My purpose is to move away from word. I get 100-200 ms word docs a month from various sources with different structures and presentational formatting. I need to get them down to lean, economical, AP style documents with limited presentational markup for import into InDesign.
I've used Word for years, but the scripting is beyond me... I'm looking for something simple and elegant. I think NWP will work, I just need the structure to get started.
I have done "Record Marcos" in MS Word and done some editing of those macros.
If I had a series of find/replace commands, what would the structure of that be? I can figure out the regular expressions, but what would the blank object be... sort of like the shell of an html document.
My purpose is to move away from word. I get 100-200 ms word docs a month from various sources with different structures and presentational formatting. I need to get them down to lean, economical, AP style documents with limited presentational markup for import into InDesign.
I've used Word for years, but the scripting is beyond me... I'm looking for something simple and elegant. I think NWP will work, I just need the structure to get started.