Splitting entries?

Heather Pendley

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Oct 28, 2021, 4:55:07 PM10/28/21

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I have been asked to index a behemoth of a catalog and am hoping to split copied text (if I can't get a txt file to import). I am practicing the split function but SKY8 keeps stalling when I try the utilities │ split function saying "splitting 0%" at the bottom forever. Suggestions?

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Deborah Patton

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Oct 28, 2021, 5:40:30 PM10/28/21

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Have you highlighted (selected) those records you want to split?

Have you tried chunking the records into smaller groups than the entire thing?

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Heather Pendley

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Oct 28, 2021, 5:45:09 PM10/28/21

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It finally worked! But it seems like my client will only have a pdf or InDesign file for me (but the index is BOB). Besides cutting and pasting 10K line items into SKY, how else can I index this giant thing before retirement?

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Iris Ailin-Pyzik

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Oct 28, 2021, 6:04:12 PM10/28/21

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Acrobat reader has an option to save as text. You'd have to try it to see if it would get you something useful. I don't own a full copy of Acrobat to see what other options you might have. If you know someone with a full license, they could likely do it for you if the full version would do something more useful. It would be a one-shot process, and you wouldn't need them to do anything after that.

I guess I'm also not sure what the format (I don't mean file type) of the 'catalog' is, that you'd want to import.

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