I also did not want to read the copies while sitting at my computer but to use my iPad instead. And select and delete.In preparing for my own dissertation research, I began getting electronic copies of journal articles so that I would not be burdened with lots of paper copies and for better file organization. I can certainly go through and select and delete each line laboriously OR I can select the column, sort from A-Z, and now all of the superfluous lines are grouped together up here with “Highlight” as the first word and all of the blank lines are grouped together down at the end. Now this is a little trickier since blank lines and junk are sprinkled in between each citation. And I can get rid of these rows at the bottom by doing the same. I can get rid of these rows at the top that I don’t need by Selecting them and hitting Delete. Now I’m going to get rid of some of this junk that I don’t need. So, I add a column and number them sequentially by filling in 1 and 2 and then selecting the entire range and hitting Autofill. After all, I’m going to read through this later on and it will make way more sense if the highlights are listed in the original order. Generally, I don’t need to know what page of the PDF the highlight was on, but I DO want to preserve the original order of the highlights. The page number is listed and then all of the highlights within that page. You can see how GoodReader formats your citations. Okay - now I’ve got to get rid of some formatting issues.

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