Thoughts upon editing a document, v.1.0

[eurydicebound]

1. God help me, if you don't learn to use tabs at the beginning of paragraphs, I will hunt you down and kill you. I cannot search and replace that. I have to do it manually for 15 freakin' pages. I'm already pissed because you shorted the damned word count and I have to fill it in. Don't make me even more homicidally insane by ignoring stuff that you could open one of the books and verify as the style for this game since time immemorial.

*seethe*

Comments

[mforbeck.livejournal.com]

In Word, try this:

Select the text you want to affect. Then go to Find/Replace (shift-command-H).

Find: ^p
Replace ^p^t

This should put a tab at the start of each line in the selected text. If the two styles you want to use are mixed thoroughly, you may have to do a lot of selecting, but it's easier than having to do it a paragraph at a time.

[adamjury.livejournal.com]

To follow up on Matt's comment, since I'm sure I know what you're editing, do the following S&R for the whole document:

Find: ^p
Replace: ^p^t

then:

Find: ^p^t>
Replace: ^p>

That will add a tab to all paragraphs, then remove that tab from paragraphs that start with a ">" character.