How to make the lines in a doc a certain length

JoeCelli · Post by **JoeCelli** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:18 pm

I want to chop every line in a document opened up with TextPad, for example the current line length is 700 I only need the first 300 columns. I have been clicking on the 300 space and then clicking end to highlite the rest of the un-needed data - This works fine, however I need to manually do this for every line.. I love TextPad and would like to do this using it rather than bringing the data into Excel.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:37 pm

Find what: ^(.{300}).*
Replace with: \1

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