So let me get this straight - on original idea. I can't remember. Is it always exactly 2 characters per piece, and if so, how many pieces are we talkign?

Is it 6, like it looks like at link below? So you could do this with an embedded formula. You'll need: --CONCATENATE --LEFT --MID --LEN. Maybe, but maybe not, since it's a fixed length. --RIGHT I think that's it.

Method 1: Convert the file to another format, and then convert it back to its native format. This is the easiest and most complete document recovery method. Always try it first. Save the file in Rich Text Format (RTF). This format preserves the formatting in your Word for Mac document. 3 Simple Ways to Strip Styling & Formatting from Text in Mac OS X. Apr 18, 2013. It will strip all text formatting on the fly, and you can either temporarily enable (or disable it) for when you want to retain formatting or images. It’s awesome! And no, I am not affiliated with the app author. I use it every day, all day.

Microsoft access for mac. I'll see what I can put together in just a sec. RE: Formatting an Excel cell to add dot separators for mac address (IS/IT - Management) 4 Aug 11 15:37.

A few colleagues were talking in a Slack team the other day about discovering “paste without formatting” and kicking themselves for only learning about it relatively recently. I confess despite my decades of computing experience that it was just a few years ago I realized how widespread the support for such an option is! When you copy text in many pieces of software, including text selected and copied in a browser window, OS X grabs a rich text version, which includes a variety of underlying formatting for text size, inline bold and italics, hypertext links, and other specifications. Then, when you paste that elsewhere, you may get unexpected results or unnecessary formatting.

In software that supports it, you can choose an option that lets you remove everything but the actual characters. You’ll find it spelled out in different ways in each app that lets you paste in text.

In Nisus Writer Pro, it’s Edit > Paste > Paste Text Only. In OpenOffice, it’s Edit > Paste Special, and then select Unformatted Text. In Pages and in TextEdit, the wording for this option is misleading: you have to pick Edit > Paste and Match Style. It has the same effect, however, and the pasted-in text is just styled with whatever the paragraph formatting is at the insertion point.

I tested this by pasting styled text with a hyperlink and then pasting using match style, exporting the file as RTF (Rich Text Format), and examining the raw contents in BBEdit. Sure enough, Paste and Match Style stripped everything out. Google Docs has a subtle way to remove formatting after pasting (or on any text). Google Docs lacks a style-free paste, but after pasting text in, you can select what you added and then click the button labeled T with a subscript x. This is the Clear Formatting option, which you can also access by pressing Command- (back slash) if that’s not mapped to another command for you. (For me, it’s the default for invoking 1Password.) There’s also a round-trip option when you’re pasting into software without a paste-without-format option. I’ve been using for years to strip rich-text formatting, because it only handles text, although it includes any implicit encoding related to character sets and languages.