Hi Anne,
Would a default format, or creating a template, in Word work? That way you could copy and paste over results from the list into a new document, use the 'merge formatting' or 'replace formatting' options and the spaces could be inserted as part of the formatting. Not sure if it might work but I tend to find the merge function works when I'm bringing together citations from lots of different places if working with grey literature.
Kind regards,
Kerry
Kerry Flett
Librarian
QuAD Centre
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
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From: UK medical / health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anne Gray
Sent: 20 April 2018 09:53
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Subject: Format of HDAS Medline abstracts
I don't know about others but the lack of spaces in Medline abstracts downloaded from HDAS has long been a niggle of mine, where there is no space after the abstract subheadings. It looks very unprofessional in search reports. I contacted the NICE help desk about this. Response below.
"Our developer has looked into this for you and unfortunately, this is an issue with Medline. They provide HDAS with the abstracts, and they control the way it displays. We cannot control how it is formatted after it comes through the api to HDAS."
So I just have to put up with it or spend a lot of time inserting the spaces. Maybe set up a Find and Replace process.
Happy Friday.
Anne
Anne Gray
Arden GEM CSU
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