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no sadly not....I had to do it one search term at a time

That's such a help, Ben, thank you.

I read that paragraph out to my wife and she just shook her head, said "furrrrrrrrrrrrrk" and walked away

so if I only wanted to replace say the 8th tab with a character like "-", would I enter this regex?

Find what: ^(([^\t]*\t){5})[^\t]*\t
Replace with: \-

damn but regex are confusing!

Brilliant! Thank you

As a newbie, I've been trying to find some stuff on this but am bewildered! I have a bunch of text files (200+) with tab-delimited data like that below (with \t added to show the tabs). Each file has up to 30000 lines of data all in the same format but I want to delete the Field with addresses ie ...

It would be great if you added a macro to emulate the linux grep command so that you could use a file of line delimited terms to search in multiple files.

Is there anyway you can automate (or run a macro) Find in Files? I want to use a list of names to search in several hundred txt files and get an output file that lists each occurrence. I can do this manually of course or run a grep command in ubuntu but I want the results in Windows and would rather ...