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ben_josephs wrote:It does work. Try again.

Make sure you haven't got a space at the end of the search expression.

Thank you very much. It does work.

F i nd what: ([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz])-\1 Re p lace with: \1\1 [ X ] Regular e xpression Replace A ll Thanks, Ben, I tried this but that sequence doesn't find anything. I do appreciate you replying though. Please disregard my question. I'll solve the problem using another text editor.

ak47wong did provide you with a solution that matched exactly what you requested: If I could search for a sequence where a hyphen/dash is inserted between two consonants . But now you have changed the specs. Here is a structure that you can complete: Search for (b)-(b)|(c)-(c)|(d)-(d)|.......|(z ...

If I could search for a sequence where a hyphen/dash is inserted between two consonants and replace with those same two consonants, then my world would be ever so much brighter. You can do a replace operation like so: Find what: ([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz])-([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz]) Replace with: \1\2 ...

In texts that I receive from others, there are often hyphenated words that appeared at the end of a line in their word processor or text editor, but which aren't at the end of a line for my configuration. It's easy to change "-ing" to "ing" for instance, but when a word such as "grabbing" is present ...

Bob, you are just too cool for words. <grin>
Seriously, I sure hope the original poster for this question is still following the link.

I've found if you create a macro inside a document that has already been saved, then the clipboard contents won't get hard coded inside the macro. I don't have a clue how one would insert the date and time into the title via a macro but maybe this will help get past the hard coded information from ...

Thanks for your suggestion, Crassius. I'm dealing with documents that are word-wrapped and without hard breaks at the end of each sentence. But searching on the string "\\n\([^\t]\)" and replacing with "\n\t\1" is the fix suggested back in May by Mudguard on the same question I have today ...

And again, I'm talking about the first line in each paragraph, not the first line in the document.

My apologies. After more testing, Bob, that search string indents only the first line on some text documents but not on others. I'm trying to determine what setting makes the difference.

Darn. Please ignore the poor grammer.

Thanks for your suggestion, but that search routine indents every line in the entire document to be indented. I'm trying to find a method of formatting paragraphs so that the first line, and only the first line, in each paragraph is indented.

Nope, you're not missing anything -- I am! I need to proof what I write much better. I'm really concerned with formatting every paragraph in a given document. In other words, I want the first line in every paragraph to be indented. Sorry for my poor explanation.

Can anyone tell me how to indent only the first line in a document? What settings under "Preferences" must be set for this to happen. I've read past forum suggestions and they don't work. Invariably, the suggested procedure indents the entire paragraph or does nothing at all.