Find/Delete text in a document

Hello,

First. I want to thank the forum. It's really cool what you guys do for us newbies.

I have a two part question. Not sure if I should post separately, and I will if that makes sense, but I feel they are related.

So first. I have a block of text:

I want to keep this.
I want to delete this.
I want to keep this.

The end result would be, and I have no clue how to get it to delete the line in the middle.
I want to keep this.
I want to keep this.

Second:

I want to keep this.
IDnumber sometext1
I want to keep this.
IDnumber sometext2

The end result will be:

I want to keep this.
I want to keep this.

For the latter, I imagine it will be a while loop, but I can't figure out how to find the first string and then move to the end, not to mention deleting the resulting line in between. Please assume each line ends in a paragraph break.

Thank you for any help.

1. Format all text as hidden
2. Use Find/Replace to remove the hidden attribute from:

I want to keep this.
3.

Use Find/Replace to delete all hidden text.

You could, of course, record the above as a macro.

Hi Paul. Thanks for the quick response. I will try this approach tomorrow. For the second part of my question, this is what my data looks like:
Attachment 21942

So I would need to delete the lines that start with Service Locator until the line ends, after the number. Would the approach above be viable? Thanks again.

If all you need to do is delete lines that start with 'Service Locator', all you need is a straightforward wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = ^13Service Locator*^13
Replace = ^p

Hi Paul,

My apologies, but the caret 13 is literal? I used the syntax as above and no results were returned. Thanks.

Ok. Realized ^sService Locator*^13 would work. Thank you.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by mellowest

Realized ^sService Locator*^13 would work.

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That suggests your lines don't start with 'Service Locator', but with a non-breaking space followed by 'Service Locator'.

Indeed. Thanks for the help.