Dear all,

I use WinXP, WordXP, FM 5.5

I have a Word document. The document consists of hundreds of articles (or 
paragraphs). Each article has three lines. Each line begins with a # sign 
followed by a two-digit number. The sign and the number are repeated in each 
new article. These are three examples:

    # 01 article one
    # 02 author one
    # 03 source one

    # 01 article two
    # 02 author two
    # 03 source two

    # 01 article three
    # 02 author three
    # 03 source three

and so on for hundreds of such articles.

Now, I need to convert this document to an FM database in such a way that 
all # 01 lines be in one field, all # 02 lines in another field and all # 03 
lines in yet a third field without losing the relations between the lines of 
the same article.

Can anyone thankfully tell me how can I manage this?

 - Newzad 

In Word,

1) replace all occurrences of "# 02 " with a tab
2) replace all occurrences of "# 03 " with a tab
3) Replace all occuances of more than one paragraph mark with one 
paragraph mark.
(optional)
4) replace all occurrences of "# 01 " with (nothing)

save it as a plain tab delimited text file. Now each of you records are 
on one line, separated by tabs, and can be imported into 3 fields in a 
Filemaker database.

Kent



Newzad Hirori said the following on 5/28/05 13:23:
> Dear all,
> 
> I use WinXP, WordXP, FM 5.5
> 
> I have a Word document. The document consists of hundreds of articles (or 
> paragraphs). Each article has three lines. Each line begins with a # sign 
> followed by a two-digit number. The sign and the number are repeated in each 
> new article. These are three examples:
> 
>     # 01 article one
>     # 02 author one
>     # 03 source one
> 
>     # 01 article two
>     # 02 author two
>     # 03 source two
> 
>     # 01 article three
>     # 02 author three
>     # 03 source three
> 
> and so on for hundreds of such articles.
> 
> Now, I need to convert this document to an FM database in such a way that 
> all # 01 lines be in one field, all # 02 lines in another field and all # 03 
> lines in yet a third field without losing the relations between the lines of 
> the same article.
> 
> Can anyone thankfully tell me how can I manage this?
> 
>  - Newzad 
> 
>