I need to edit a text document (some 10k + lines) by finding numerous hexadecimal values and altering them if they greater than a certain value;

e.g. if X > Z then X = X - Y

I pretty sure this could be done with a macro but have had no joy finding an example macro on the net (and I don't want to have to learn Visual Basic as it'll probably be quicker to hand edit the file ).

Does anyone have any idea how to go about this?

Thanks.

 

you would not have to learn VB it would be possible to do this using word basic, been a while since ive done ms office macro's as ive moved onto opendoc
If you dont get any joy by the weekend ill have a go if you want

 

Thanks for the reply, I'll see what I can find out about Word Basic (I haven't done any basic programming since I was I kid - a long time ago!).

 

I *think* this is sorted now with an Excel macro, just need to do some final testing. Thanks for the offer of help