How to automatically add paragraph return or line break after every first word?

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Hi all,I thought this was SO EASY to do and that I already knew how to do it... but all of a sudden I am battling to do it, maybe because I am trying to do it in a hurry...I have been working on data merge today (finally got my problems with THAT sorted out yahoo!!) and need one of the fields/styles to be set on two lines instead of one, with the person's first name on the first line and their surname on the second line....so it looks like this:FrankSullivaninstead of one line.I have been fiddling with nested styles but am battling to find an easy way to do this.  Before today I thought I was a PRO with nested files and thought this would be SO easy but....  Instead of doing this manually (there are just soooooooooooo many names to do   ) I would love for it to happen automatically as part of the style.Help???

FRIdNGE · Accepted Answer

Save first, so you can close without saving if needed
Make sure there is an empty column to the right
Select this column
Data tab > Data Tools > Text to Columns > Delimited > Next
The delimiter is the space
Confirm the preview and click Next
Keep General (or change the format) and click Next
Change the headings to say FirstName and LastName. You are done in Excel. Later you can concatenate to bring them back together if needed. Use these field instead.

Short version:

Grep code: (?s)^\H+\K\h

Char style: +tracking = 10000, +horizontal scaling = 1000

FRIdNGE · Answer

Hi,Just include a grep style in the para style! …Best,Michel, for FRIdNGE

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