$0M50

HI THANKYOU.
I CAN MAKE THAT WORK!!
MUCH APPRECIATED

You aren’t reading the solutions at all.

This is true.
And the attention-to-detail aspect is getting worse, not better. :-(
We can’t help those that won’t help themselves.

Notes:

• g0 suddenly somehow became G00
• no one said to use \r in the Replace without a \n following
• it sure looks like there is a space between (?-s) and G00 in the Find

Also you could remove the tick boxes on match whole words and match case.

Terry

I’d try:

Find: (?-is)^g0.*(\R)
Replace: $0M0$1
Search mode: Regular expression

Also, you can’t just say M10 one place in what you want, and m10 in another – this just shows us that you can’t pay close attention to detail, and makes it harder to help you. :-(

So did you try my solution? Just enter g0 in place of the “text I want to find” and the m10 in place of the “text I want to insert”. Don’t forget the search mode must be “regular expression”.

Try it on a copy of the file and find next, then replace buttons just so you can see what is happening.

Terry

your knowledge would be very much appreciated

I would be doing what you require using a regular expression (regex). You seem to already be familiar with the Replace function.

So a suitable regex for your situation would be:
Find What:(?-s)(text i want to find.?)
Replace With:${1}\r\ntext I want to insert
Search mode is regular expression.

So this finds the text you are looking for (obviously you need to replace the text I’ve used with your look for and inserted text) and continues to capture to the end of line (excluding the line feed/cariage return). The replace portion inserts a new line feed/carriage return, then the new text. The original line feed/carriage return is still there and now appends the new line inserted.

And as you refer to a macro, which is just the keystrokes recorded of the replace function with the fields as described above.

If this doesn’t suit you might have to provide an example as some of what you say isn’t entirely clear.

Terry