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From: Stephen Larivee on 2 Jun 2010 17:15 Win XP, Word 2003 I exported a field in FileMaker Pro. It is a repeating field with two dates in one field. I thought I could import the field into Word and find the marker that separates one date from the next and do a Replace All and put a Tab between the two dates and then put the dates into two different fields, the way they belong. I have the field in Word and there is a small rectangle between the dates. So far nothing I have used as a Find has "found" it, except for White Space (^w), but when I do a find ^w and replace ^t, Word replaces thousands of the occurences but the demon white rectanges remain. I even tried copying and pasting the rectange into the Find box but that is not working. I have a posting on a FileMaker Pro board to see if someone can show me how to separate the dates from with FileMaker, but it seems I should be able to do it from within Word. Does anyone have a suggestion???
From: CyberTaz on 2 Jun 2010 19:16 Have you tried copying the unknown character & pasting it into the Find box... You'll need to use Control+V to do the paste. I don't know if that will work, but it may be worth a shot. The basic problem is that the 'separator' between the 2 dates is an uncommon unidentified character. Unless the suggestion works or you can find some way to identify it accurately there isn't much you can do in Word's F&R without some crafty criteria... Perhaps Graham Mayor, macropod, or one of the other gurus can come up with something. I think your best bet is going to be in FM, though. It's been years since I worked with it, but I seem to remember an option for outputting the content of repeating fields as separate fields. You might also consider importing the data into Excel to see if the dates get picked up correctly... And Excel also has a 'Text to Columns' feature. HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 6/2/10 5:15 PM, in article hu6hl7$iue$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, "Stephen Larivee" <lariveesl(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Win XP, Word 2003 > > I exported a field in FileMaker Pro. It is a repeating field with two dates > in one field. I thought I could import the field into Word and find the > marker that separates one date from the next and do a Replace All and put a > Tab between the two dates and then put the dates into two different fields, > the way they belong. I have the field in Word and there is a small > rectangle between the dates. So far nothing I have used as a Find has > "found" it, except for White Space (^w), but when I do a find ^w and replace > ^t, Word replaces thousands of the occurences but the demon white rectanges > remain. I even tried copying and pasting the rectange into the Find box but > that is not working. > > I have a posting on a FileMaker Pro board to see if someone can show me how > to separate the dates from with FileMaker, but it seems I should be able to > do it from within Word. > > Does anyone have a suggestion??? >
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 2 Jun 2010 19:16 If you send the file to me at dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org I will have a look at it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Stephen Larivee" <lariveesl(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hu6hl7$iue$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Win XP, Word 2003 > > I exported a field in FileMaker Pro. It is a repeating field with two > dates in one field. I thought I could import the field into Word and find > the marker that separates one date from the next and do a Replace All and > put a Tab between the two dates and then put the dates into two different > fields, the way they belong. I have the field in Word and there is a > small rectangle between the dates. So far nothing I have used as a Find > has "found" it, except for White Space (^w), but when I do a find ^w and > replace ^t, Word replaces thousands of the occurences but the demon white > rectanges remain. I even tried copying and pasting the rectange into the > Find box but that is not working. > > I have a posting on a FileMaker Pro board to see if someone can show me > how to separate the dates from with FileMaker, but it seems I should be > able to do it from within Word. > > Does anyone have a suggestion???
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 3 Jun 2010 19:09 The unknown character is a Group Separator (ASCII 29) and to deal with it you must use ActiveDocument.Range.Text = Replace(ActiveDocument.Range.Text, Chr(29), Chr(9)) -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Stephen Larivee" <lariveesl(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hu6hl7$iue$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Win XP, Word 2003 > > I exported a field in FileMaker Pro. It is a repeating field with two > dates in one field. I thought I could import the field into Word and find > the marker that separates one date from the next and do a Replace All and > put a Tab between the two dates and then put the dates into two different > fields, the way they belong. I have the field in Word and there is a > small rectangle between the dates. So far nothing I have used as a Find > has "found" it, except for White Space (^w), but when I do a find ^w and > replace ^t, Word replaces thousands of the occurences but the demon white > rectanges remain. I even tried copying and pasting the rectange into the > Find box but that is not working. > > I have a posting on a FileMaker Pro board to see if someone can show me > how to separate the dates from with FileMaker, but it seems I should be > able to do it from within Word. > > Does anyone have a suggestion???
From: Stephen Larivee on 4 Jun 2010 07:07 Thank you for your help and the file you worked on. The finished file is just what I was trying to do. I think my only question would be, How did you know that the separating mark was ASCII 29? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr(a)REMOVECAPSmvps.org> wrote in message news:477B636B-FABD-46B1-BA01-F87F806BCC6B(a)microsoft.com... > > The unknown character is a Group Separator (ASCII 29) and to deal with it > you must use > > ActiveDocument.Range.Text = Replace(ActiveDocument.Range.Text, Chr(29), > Chr(9)) > > -- > Hope this helps. > > Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my > services on a paid consulting basis. > > Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com > > "Stephen Larivee" <lariveesl(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:hu6hl7$iue$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> Win XP, Word 2003 >> >> I exported a field in FileMaker Pro. It is a repeating field with two >> dates in one field. I thought I could import the field into Word and >> find the marker that separates one date from the next and do a Replace >> All and put a Tab between the two dates and then put the dates into two >> different fields, the way they belong. I have the field in Word and >> there is a small rectangle between the dates. So far nothing I have used >> as a Find has "found" it, except for White Space (^w), but when I do a >> find ^w and replace ^t, Word replaces thousands of the occurences but the >> demon white rectanges remain. I even tried copying and pasting the >> rectange into the Find box but that is not working. >> >> I have a posting on a FileMaker Pro board to see if someone can show me >> how to separate the dates from with FileMaker, but it seems I should be >> able to do it from within Word. >> >> Does anyone have a suggestion??? >
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