Removing duplicate text

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danison

Hi

I am running Word 2000 and am trying to find a way to remove duplicat
text entries in a page of text. I have cut and paste about 2500 word
onto a Word doc page (in a normal column, not in a table or anything a
such). What I need to do is to go through and remove duplicate word
from that list, as there are many. I have tried to find a solutio
however have not been able to in the past and I have had to spend
hours going through trying to find each duplicate separately an
removing them one by one.

Thanks


Bil
 
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Dreamboat

Place your cursor at the left of the first word and hit Table-Sort. That should make it easier to SEE dupes

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Hope this helps
Anne Tro
Author: Dreamboat on Wor
Email: Dreamboat*at*Piersontech.co
Web: www.TheOfficeExperts.com
 
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Dreamboat

If you can't sort your list, you could likely narrow it down a great deal

Copy the first word
Ctrl+H and paste
Don't put anything in the replace with box
Hit replace all
Then paste your word back into the list ('cause you'll have deleted them all)
Then do the next word

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Hope this helps
Anne Tro
Author: Dreamboat on Wor
Email: Dreamboat*at*Piersontech.co
Web: www.TheOfficeExperts.com
 
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Guest

Hi, I am assuming that you have a long list of words and
want to find repeated words. If so, select all the words,
go to Table, convert text to table. Once in table form,
you can click table, sort. Going down the list to find
duplicates will be much easier because the words will be
together.
Hope this helps,
Joan
 
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Graham Mayor

Joan
There is no need to convert to a table in order to sort. Word will sort
paragraphs using the same sort tool as for tables. In fact in order to
automate the process of removing duplicates, you need to keep the list out
of a table.

The wildcard replace function I posted yesterday morning

(*^13)@
with
\1

Will clear the duplicates in a single pass.

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