[duxuser] Fill in the blank
- From: "Brett Winches" <bwinches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:09:40 -0600
As promised.....
Subject: Hint for word users
This hint came to me from a colleague who does Braille translation and
is very helpful in pre-preparation of forms with fill in the blanks. If
you replace all the repeated characters with a shorter one such as
(space provided) the forms are much more readable for the user.
WORD SEARCH AND REPLACE HINT[- OR _]
To change any number of underscores to a single double dash OR (Hyphens)
in Word, do the following:
Ctrl H to start Find and Replace
Click More (Alt M) to expand the dialog box Check Use wildcards (Alt U)
Find what: _{1,} [you are looking for 1 or more underscores]
Replace with: or space provided (include spaces)
Click Replace all (Alt A)
For example,
This is _ a test.
This is __ a test.
This is ___ a test.
This is ____ a test.
The above can be removed and replaced with a single - or any word phrase
you choose.
Thank you!
Brett Winchester KD7JN
bwinchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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