As a designer I'm quite often working on text files here & there and sometimes cutting & pasting data from various sources into MS Word means that the formatting is all wrong (tip: paste into notepad first to strip formatting then paste that output into Word) or there's no formatting at all.

For instance - I want to find out how many items there were in this small business news page.

Rather than count line-by-line there's a labour-saving technique to be had with Find & Replace in Word. So I copied the main page content into Word and had a one-line output. Seeing that every item began with either '2007' or '2008' I simply executed find '2007' and replace all with '^p 2007' and find '2008' and replace all with '^p 2008'

^p 6p is basically a line break.

So I replaced all the year dates with linebreaks and ended up with 79 lines/articles

Life saver :)

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Here at 22i design we offer a number of services from hosting to web design, graphics to search engine optimisation etc. We've always written our own content too and we run a number of other sites where we write regular copy.

Since the beginning of September 2007 we've been writing daily Small Business News for the is4profit small business website, so feel free to take a look. Apart from a short holiday period we've written every day and have provided not only new, relevant and unique information but also boosted the site's traffic with just one new page a day :)

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