Stefan's thread,
New Tool Timesaver
got me wondering whether I'm doing things upside-down and backward, which I tend to do.
It took me several months to jury-rig and patch together a means of taking draw results from this site, the NM site, and others, and working on them on the software I use.
Here's a for instance:
Unless I'm doing something wrong, the Daily Result on a Single Page on LP won't convert directly to Excel, and it won't show up in a single cut-and-paste on MS Word to convert the Results to something I can work with.
Here's what I end up doing:
- Select all and Copy from the RESULTS page to Notepad
- Select all and Copy from Notepad to MS Word
- Go through a series of steps in MS Word replacing, say, 2006, with 2006(TAB), hyphen with (TAB), , powerball: with (TAB), , Power play: with (TAB), , bonus: with (TAB), and so on.
- Select all and Copy from MS Word to Notepad
- Select all and Copy from Notepad to Excel
Then, when I've got things worked up and want to wheel some numbers, I flip back and forth and back and forth trying to remember as many numbers as I can and plug them individually into the wheel-maker accurately.
Now, I usually make some refinements on the LP wheels I've generated. So I need to get it back into Excel. Soooooooo
- Select all and Copy from the RESULTS page to Notepad
- Select all and Copy from Notepad to MS Word
- Go through a series of steps in MS Word replacing, say, 2006, with 2006(TAB), hyphen with (TAB), , powerball: with (TAB), , Power play: with (TAB), , bonus: with (TAB), and so on.
- Select all and Copy from MS Word to Notepad
- Select all and Copy from Notepad to Excel
Hokay. Now I want to post a prediction for a 5+1 game wheel.
I ain't even going to describe what I go through to do that.
I'm not complaining. I figure I am just really stupid and that I've cobbled something together that eventually gets me through, gotten used to it, and probably am doing something about ten times as tedious and time consuming as anyone with a lick of sense would do.
IS there an easy way to get all this done that someone can describe to me here?
I've been looking on TuDogs.com hoping to find a notepad type editor with some enhanced abilities that might cut out some steps, but maybe it's something can be done with what I already have.
Anyone who knows a better way and will tell me will have me grovelling and drooling.
Gracias,
Jack