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    Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    I'm sure it can't be that hard but for the life on me can't figure it out. I have a list of about 1000 names and nicknames pulled from a Excel spreadheet. See example.

    Aergia
    J Ardenia Gaines
    Aesculus
    Donovan Maguigan
    After
    Lawrence Salavatore
    Agnastie Monk, The
    Douglas Page
    Alien
    Suzanne Goulet
    All Smiles
    Mike Campbell
    Aloha!
    Aloha Ann Pfeil
    Always Bonnie & Sometimes Clyde
    Mary Wilcoxson & Phil

    I just need it to look like this

    Aergia
    J Ardenia Gaines

    Aesculus
    Donovan Maguigan

    After
    Lawrence Salavatore

    Agnastie Monk, The
    Douglas Page

    Alien
    Suzanne Goulet

    All Smiles
    Mike Campbell

    Aloha!
    Aloha Ann Pfeil

    Always Bonnie & Sometimes Clyde
    Mary Wilcoxson & Phil

    Indenting the real name and spacing between them.

    Edit, for some reason the post didnt pick up the three space indentation. But upon review I'll settle for the results with only a space between names without the indentation.
    Last edited by Hikertrash; 01-05-2013 at 01:53 PM.

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    Re: Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    This is a bit crude but should work.

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    I've set the loop to exit after 1000 iterations - so you may need to adjust this.
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    Re: Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    mrice, that works, thanks so much, but the indent is too much. I only need a two or three space indent

    Aloha!
    (with the real name well past the nick name) Ann Pfeil
    Last edited by Hikertrash; 01-05-2013 at 04:38 PM. Reason: needed to format

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    Re: Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    Nevermind, I got it. I ran your macro then reset the tab stop. Got just what I needed, thanks!

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    Re: Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    This will do it with spaces.

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    Re: Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    Very good, thanks again!

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    Re: Simple Word macro to indent and space?

    You can actually do this without a macro, using a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
    Find = [!^13]{1,}
    Replace = ^t^&^p
    and the 'Find' format is specified as 'Not Bold'.

    As a macro, this becomes:
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    The above code should also run much faster than what you're now using.
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    Paul Edstein
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