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Subject:Re: Reversing word order in Excel 2007 cells From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> Date:Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:26:24 -0400
Richard Combs wrote:
> Sorry, but there's simply no way to automate this.
I'd output to a csv file and write emacs macros to do the correction,
then re-import the csv. It'd be worth it to find someone who already has
emacs built into his fingers. (I'm one, of course, but there are
others.) The "programming" in emacs is trivial. Well, "trivial".
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