Is it possible to create event rules in Word or Notepad and copy into a report event?

I am trying to duplicate a series of event rules for one column in a report - and update them and load them into another column.  So update the report variable names, etc. for the second column.

So I wondered if it was possible to copy the existing event rules and load into Word or Notepad - then update them in that program using "find and replace" and then copy and paste them into the events of the other column.

I could export them to Word, then do the find and replace, but when I tried to copy them and then paste them into the event of the other column it would not work and the message said the clipboard was empty.