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    Importing an indented outline from Word

    I have a word document that is in a basic outline form with indentations for each level of the outline. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about.

    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806
    *GYRINIDAE Latreille, 1810
    **SPANGLEROGYRINAE Folkerts, 1979
    **GYRININAE Latreille, 1810
    *HALIPLIDAE Aubé, 1836
    *TRACHYPACHIDAE C.G. Thomson, 1857
    *NOTERIDAE C.G. Thomson, 1860
    **PHREATODYTINAE Uéno, 1957
    **NOTERINAE C.G. Thomson, 1860

    This forum won't display it tabbed out, so i put in an asterisk* where a tab would be.
    There's about 12 pages of this. I would like to bring this into Excel so that it looks like this (a dash indicating a new column).

    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806 -GYRINIDAE Latreille, 1810 -SPANGLEROGYRINAE Folkerts, 1979
    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806 -GYRINIDAE Latreille, 1810 -GYRININAE Latreille, 1810
    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806 -HALIPLIDAE Aubé, 1836
    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806 -TRACHYPACHIDAE C.G. Thomson, 1857
    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806 -NOTERIDAE C.G. Thomson, 1860 -PHREATODYTINAE Uéno, 1957
    ADEPHAGA Schellenberg, 1806 -NOTERIDAE C.G. Thomson, 1860 -NOTERINAE C.G. Thomson, 1860

    Each level of the outline (the number of tabs indented) would get put into its own column. It would also be nice to take that one step further and break out the Lowercase names and years into their own columns as well.

    Am I asking for a miracle here?

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Marc
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    Re: Importing an indented outline from Word

    Hi Marc

    Welcome to the forum.

    No, you are not asking for a miracle, just for someone with a twisted mind with too much time on his hands - and then hope that he does not realise until it's too late just how much he has taken on!

    I have done what I believe you have asked - I hope it's what you want.

    Regards
    Alastair
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    Re: Importing an indented outline from Word

    This is a great help. But I still have one problem. When I paste the original outline into excel, everything gets put into column A. For your macro to work, the indented items need to already be in their appropriate columns. How do I paste so that each column represents an indentation?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Importing an indented outline from Word

    Hi Marc

    I see your problem. I had started from your file which clearly shows the one or two tabs. I have Googled MS Word and can find nothing that helps. I know what I need to run a macro in Word:

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    You can then copy the text to Excel and use Text to Columns with # as the deliminator.

    So all you need to do is to find out the reference for the position of the cursor. (Let me know if you succeed!)

    As a work around you can do it manually - I hope you do not have too many rows.

    Sorry not to have been more help

    Regards
    Alastair

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