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Even the multi-pass solution I actually used to do the job probably only took 3 or 4 minutes, including the time it took to type the original and then retrieve, edit and re-run each of 5 passes.

Conversely, I must have spent an hour or two trying to figure out why my first attempt didn't work.

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