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1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 88 The user may initially employ his own Preprocessor to edit and reformat his data prior to entering it into the system.

1973 Computers & Humanities 7 214 The cards were built onto a disk file by a program that reformatted the material into fixed-length records.

1982 Papers Dict. Soc. N. Amer. 1979 139 Computer-stored dictionaries can be updated and reprinted, or extracted and reformatted.

1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 173/3 As text is entered, inserted and deleted, WordStar 2000 automatically reformats text to the current margins.

1991 S. Faludi Backlash ii. vi. 142 After various delays and script battles, ‘Angels '88’ was..reformatted as a ‘telefilm’.

1997 Independent 10 Feb. ii. 11/2 People forget that when they delete a message, a spouse who is computer-literate can just go in and recover it later, unless they reformat their hard drive each time.

2004 V. McDermid Torment of Others (2005) 98 Like most people, he never bothered to reformat or even defrag.

2006 Wired June 159/1 The [comic] strip didn't sell, so they reformatted it and flipped it to a publisher hungry to buy content for one of the first comic books.