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How to remove capital C when followed by a space then return
In a document I am working on, it was OCR'd from a very large document (9,000 pages) that was previously in files with holes punched into each page.
Often during the OCR the holes were coming up as a Capital letter C followed by a return (as per the below). If I just delete capital C's from the entire document I screw up many words. Is there a way I can only delete a capital C when it is immediately followed by a space, then a return?
I'm also hoping to remove situations where I have a return at the end of a line, followed by another return on the next line in the below image I just want the document to have one return as per the first paragraph) rather than a return then another return as per the proceeding three lines. Any help with this one too would be awesome.
Thanks in advance to all.
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Noone_Important For the UpperCase C followed by a space and a Pilcrow (¶) use Find and Replace to search for
C ^p
and replace it with nothing.
For the unwanted empty paragraphs, search for
^p^p
and replace it with
^p
- Thanks so much. That worked perfectly. Given you seem to be the bulk-replace guru, here is a tougher one.
I want to add in a Next Page Section Break everytime in the document it has "/86" without the quotes. This is because the final part of each page is a day in 1986 (written in the text as "xx/xx/86", and I want a next page section break added in there.
Word doesn't seem to allow me to do this using special characters.
Can it be done?
