Upgrade StorageCreating a Bibliography from Word document: Search without commas, or autohotkey
I wrote a long document in Word and then chopped my document in half. Had I used the Word add in, and set "Store references in document" I think I would have had no problem. Split, "Refresh" presto. Now I realize this benefit of the Word Add In I may use it in future. Anyway, that is background spilt milk.
I am now faced with making a bibliography by searching for the citations in a document.
I use APA (author, author, & author, date)
I find that I have to delete all the commas and ampersand to find the item in my library.
If there were a quicker way of doing this it would be cool. E.g. "search ignoring punctuation" setting.
Or perhaps I should use autohotkey script (at least mentioned here as a suggestion for others)
Based upon
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/110316-remove-commas-from-a-string/
The following script will cause CTRL + , (control comma) to copy a string removing commas and ampersands. You have to install autohotkey, create script (desktop right click New, Autohotkey Script), paste the below, and run it first.
^,::
; blank the clipboard so clipwait will work correctly
; with sending ^c
clipboard := ""
send ^c
ClipWait, 1
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, `,,, All
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, `&,, All
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, et al.,, All
Return
And the above citation becomes when copied using control comma control V
author author author date
It now removes "et al." too.
I am now faced with making a bibliography by searching for the citations in a document.
I use APA (author, author, & author, date)
I find that I have to delete all the commas and ampersand to find the item in my library.
If there were a quicker way of doing this it would be cool. E.g. "search ignoring punctuation" setting.
Or perhaps I should use autohotkey script (at least mentioned here as a suggestion for others)
Based upon
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/110316-remove-commas-from-a-string/
The following script will cause CTRL + , (control comma) to copy a string removing commas and ampersands. You have to install autohotkey, create script (desktop right click New, Autohotkey Script), paste the below, and run it first.
^,::
; blank the clipboard so clipwait will work correctly
; with sending ^c
clipboard := ""
send ^c
ClipWait, 1
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, `,,, All
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, `&,, All
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard, et al.,, All
Return
And the above citation becomes when copied using control comma control V
author author author date
It now removes "et al." too.