If the text document is consistently formatted I've had good luck with
(a) a series of search/replace operations in Word or (b) using Word s/r
to insert tabs and then bringing it into Excel where I finish adding the
tags column by column. Or (c) a combination thereof.

Michele

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Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Library
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Dear colleagues,

 

My institutions is beginning its first foray into marking up our
finding
aids into EAD. We're all reasonably EAD-literate, and marking up the
frontmatter should not (I say now...) be a problem.

 

I was wondering, however, how other institutions handle the mark-up of
their box and folder lists. Cutting and pasting text from our finding
aids into Oxygen, which is what we are using for mark-up, just isn't
going to cut it when we have collections with thousands of
folder-level
entries. Has anyone had any luck with using macros, or any other
system,
to avoid having to mark up a box list "by hand"? We can't all be
spending hours cut-and-pasting, can we?

 

Thanks,

Katy

 

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