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MariaO's picture

How can I extract certain things from big documents

Is there a free tool or a macro that I can use that will go through a big document and pull out certain keywords and paste them into a new document? I hope that makes sense. Here is an example - let's say that I have a document that contains hundreds of phone numbers - but along with the phone numbers there are tons of extra typing I don't want. How can I quickly extract ONLY the phone numbers and place them into a new document in a nice list? Or am I pipe-dreaming? LOL!

TIA! And have a great day!!

LisaRN's picture

depression

what do you do when you are so depressed that nothing matters to you anymore. you have nothing going for you. all your friends have abandoned you and you have no one to turn to besides those stupid help lines on the phone. how does a person live like this. it takes everything to just keep going each day. you want to give up but you dont even know how to give up.

if anyone finds out, let me know soon.

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How to Change File Associations using Vista

How to Change File Associations in Windows Vista.

File associations are basically what program opens when you open a file. For example, if you try to open a Microsoft Word Doc, the machine knows that ".doc" is the file extension and that it needs to use Microsoft Word to open it. Microsoft Word also now uses ".docx". The "x" tells the system that it is a 2007 Office file. Likewise the changes have been added to other 2007 Office file like Powerpoint (now ".pptx") and Excel (now ".xlsx")