Find and Replace help

Hi people,
First time on here....
Have a little problem...
I want to use the regular expression functionality in the
find and replace dialog. I want to replace each "; " with
";{carriage return}"
tried using
lookfor: ;
replace ;\r
\n, 0x09, and all sorts...
could someone give me some pointers please?
much appreciated.

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:38:09 +0000 (UTC), "ToonMariner"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to use the regular expression functionality in
the find and replace
>dialog. I want to replace each "; " with ";{carriage
return}"
Find: ;
Replace with: ;\n
works for me.
Gary

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> Well David, you Findmaster - it worked! (At least it
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http://foundationphp.com/

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<[email protected]>
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>> Hello.
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>>
>> <a
href="/glossary.html#Blogging">Blogging</a>
>>
>> And what I need is to have the glossary open in a
new window. So how
>> do I write a regex that will give me:
>>
>> <a href="/glossary.html#Blogging"
taget="blank">Blogging</a>
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>>
>>
>> Lance
>

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page to make progress with what that might be, as Alan says.
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because it says its
> inside
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> I have about 900 pages I need to make this change on and
was relying on
> the
> find and replace tool to do that. I tried differn't
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Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
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The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
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Figure 2.
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