I have a long document in rtf format (saved from Word 2004 which I don’t own - its not my document) that looks like this:
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin eleifend ipsum eget nunc. Morbi mattis velit vel justo scelerisque ullamcorper. Nam tincidunt enim vel nisl. Aliquam nisl.
Suspendisse blandit, sapien at consectetuer faucibus, sem leo dignissim eros, at rhoncus lorem turpis in massa. Proin urna ligula, convallis et, imperdiet nec, tristique ut, dolor. Ut neque lectus, varius eu, imperdiet et, dignissim et, elit. Nam at wisi vitae dui auctor porttitor.
July 10, 2005 ← 16 point font#1, color1
10:09am ← 12 point font#2, color2 (but all the rest of the text in 12 point Font#3, black
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin eleifend ipsum eget nunc. Morbi mattis velit vel justo scelerisque ullamcorper. Nam tincidunt enim vel nisl. Aliquam nisl. Suspendisse blandit, sapien at.
consectetuer faucibus, sem leo dignissim eros, at rhoncus lorem turpis in massa. Proin urna ligula, convallis et, imperdiet nec, tristique ut, dolor. Ut neque lectus, varius eu, imperdiet et, dignissim et, elit. Nam at wisi vitae dui auctor porttitor.
July 11, 2006
10:07am
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin eleifend ipsum eget nunc. Morbi mattis velit vel justo scelerisque ullamcorper. Nam tincidunt enim vel nisl. Aliquam nisl. Suspendisse blandit, sapien at consectetuer faucibus, sem leo dignissim eros, at rhoncus lorem turpis in massa. Proin urna ligula, convallis et, imperdiet nec, tristique ut, dolor. Ut neque lectus, varius eu, imperdiet et, dignissim et, elit. Nam at wisi vitae dui auctor porttitor.
July 13, 2007
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I want to divvy it up into individual documents. One way to do that is to add “~~~~”, say, between the black text and the colored larger date. Then, without losing the formatting, I can use text item delimiters to chop it up and get date and time from the first two paragraphs and text from the rest.
Suggestions?