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dear ppl

one possibility perhaps applicable to either of your cases : it is necessary also to change a setting in Excel before AFR has access - Help : FAQ : How to search and replace in Microsoft Excel macros?

Also in my limited experience the file must not be open in Excel , I closed Excel rather ...

A question asked earler in this forum but not answered . Is it possible to edit only one column of an Excel spreadsheet ? and if not how is this otherwise dealt with ?

thank you

csb

Dear people

I did manage to do this using regexes , using two or three articles here and the help file for another program as reference . I will not post my method here at the risk of giving misleading advice . One note , the other prog used square brackets [ ] and AFR uses curved brackets ...

postscript. All the years are between about 1440 and 1540 ; several of this form may occur in one line , or with any preceding or following phrase ( between x and x , not before x , the second part x ) . Also would like to delete leading zeroes in the first field , so that it would read 7 Jul. 1496 ...

Dear People -

if this can be answered very quickly - I am working on this at the moment and as is my habit I will keep trying until something works . ( First , I have used AFR for years and have found it to be marvellous - very fast and very stable - my highest compliments to you ) .

I presume ...