At my job I copy and paste existing text from a document into corel, format it, then it is sent out to be engraved. The format of the text is usually:
text 1 - line1 | line2 | text 2 - line1 | line2 | etc...
and it's formatted to look like this:
line1line2
etc...
Now the problem is I want to replace all the instances of text1, text2, text3, text(n) with a hard return, but it seems that the find and replace tool does not support wildcards. Is there any way around this.
Menachem Eliyahu:Now the problem is I want to replace all the instances of text1, text2, text3, text(n) with a hard return, but it seems that the find and replace tool does not support wildcards. Is there any way around this.
Probably with a VBA macro...
can yyou upload a small Coreldraw file with before and after examples you manually create, side by side? Then we know for sure...
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Why not? you can replace any text with a Hard Return
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This is essentially what I do. I replace all the '|' with a hard return then "text(n)" individually. Afterwards I break the text apart and place them in boxes.
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I should have been a little more specific, I get all my data from an html document. I would have to copy and paste anyway then reformat them to print merge. By that time I would have done what I needed to do already.
Me too, I think Print Merge is the best option
Oh well. Thanks anyway.