moving text around on a pcI know this isn't a Mac thing, but I think so much of you guys. Is there any quicker way of putting the data into its proper place (from the notepad text document) rather than clicking and backspacing with each line? For what I have to do, this will take forever. Obviously dragging over an entire line and backspacing will delete the entire line of data. Or is some special text editor needed? Any hints? Below is a bit of the text I am dealing with (all the text above has to be moved in line with the text below- actually, after previewing this post, the text line above is much farther apart than appears in this post.):
If you're looking to align text then in any word processing application (Word, TextEdit, etc..) you should pick a fixed-width font. Most fonts are variable width (ie. the 'i' character takes up less space than the 'w' character).
The most famous of the fixed width fonts is courrier [new].
Depending on what you need it for you could also use Excel/OpenOffice - import with space as a delimiter -- first removing all extra spaces by opening it in TextEdit and doing a replace of ' ' with ' ' (replace two spaces with one space). Then you will have columns of the numbers.
The programmer of the particular program just told me that the text does not have to line up. Cut and paste has nothing to do with the equation- the myriads of text I imported is the same data that exists except there is much more spacing in between each data item.
The programmer of the particular program just told me that the text does not have to line up. Cut and paste has nothing to do with the equation- the myriads of text I imported is the same data that exists except there is much more spacing in between each data item.
I'm not sure what you want, but if it's just a matter of removing spaces, any word processor will do a Find-and-Replace for the space character. For example, the program I use for this kind of chore is BBEdit 8.2. If I wanted to remove all instances of more than one space between words, I'd just tell the program to find
<< space >><< space >> and replace with << space >>. Repeat a few times and everything would be fixed. Virtually any word processor or text processor will do the same, even a Windows one.
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If you're looking to align text then in any word processing application (Word, TextEdit, etc..) you should pick a fixed-width font. Most fonts are variable width (ie. the 'i' character takes up less space than the 'w' character).
The most famous of the fixed width fonts is courrier [new].
Depending on what you need it for you could also use Excel/OpenOffice - import with space as a delimiter -- first removing all extra spaces by opening it in TextEdit and doing a replace of ' ' with ' ' (replace two spaces with one space). Then you will have columns of the numbers.
not sure if I understand what you want to accomplish, but here's my 2 cents...why not try to use tabs in your wordprocessor? That way you don't even need to use a monospaced font.
I used to have to manipulate client databases supplied in excel format. I'd save out as tab-delimited text, then place into Quark Xpress, or any other application which displays 'invisible' characters (believe Word does this too but I despise Word).
You can then do a search and replace for any individual attribute - only glitch is that it has to be unique - can't search for only certain spaces, it's either all or none.
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