how do i globally replace all black italic with red ?

[bootman]

i have a play script where the directions are in italics. For clarity i want
to have them in red. it will be too time consumeing to individually highlight
and change font colour. Is there a way of changing all Italic text - replace
? or something ??

 

[Rae Drysdale]

I can't help with the global change, but have you tried to use the Format
Painter? Change one word to red italics, highlight it, then double-click on
the Format Painter to enable multiple uses, and just drag across the black
italics. When done, press Esc or click back on the Format Painter icon (next
to the clipboard icon). Hope this helps.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

1. Ctrl+H to open the Replace dialog.

2. In the "Find what" box, press Ctrl+I. You'll see "Format: Font: Italic"
below the box.

3. Expand the dialog by clicking "More."

4. With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, click Format | Font
and select Font color: Red. OK. You'll see "Format: Font color: Red" below
the box.

5. Click Replace All.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Rae Drysdale]

As they say, you learn something new every day. Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you hang out here long enough, you definitely learn something new at
least almost every day!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[yoshi.mitsou]

1. Ctrl+H to open theReplacedialog.

2. In the "Findwhat" box, press Ctrl+I. You'll see "Format: Font: Italic"
below the box.

3. Expand the dialog by clicking "More."

4. With the insertion point in the "Replacewith" box, click Format | Font
and select Font color: Red. OK. You'll see "Format: Font color: Red" below
the box.

5. ClickReplaceAll.

I'm using Word 2003 on Windows XP and want to do a formatting search
and replace as well.
I want to find word/phrases where bold was applied with direct
formatting and change that to use a character style.

In the "Find what:" box, I typed CTRL+B.
In the "Replace with:" box, I expanded the More to Format > Style >
style name

When I did a replace all, that -eliminated- the text that used bold.
I must have missed a step somewhere or must have something else
clicked but I can't see what it is. Should I use wildcards?

Can you help?

 

[grammatim]

I'm using Word 2003 on Windows XP  and want to do a formatting search
and replace as well.
I want to find word/phrases where bold was applied with direct
formatting and change that to use a character style.

In the "Find what:" box, I typed CTRL+B.
In the "Replace with:" box, I expanded the More to Format > Style >
style name

When I did a replace all, that -eliminated- the text that used bold.
I must have missed a step somewhere or must have something else
clicked but I can't see what it is. Should I use wildcards?

Can you help?

Don't type CTRL+B; either press Ctrl-B (and the line below the box
will show the word Bold) or open More > Formatting > Font and click
the Bold button (same result). It's better to use the keyboard
shortcut version so that you can combine searches, e.g. Bold and Not
Italic.

That _should_ find bold text and label it with your style name.

But there might be a "style overlap" problem -- if any of your bold
is, say, italic, Word may no longer be able to Find the italic parts
if you Search "Italic."

 

[yoshi.mitsou]

Place ^& in the replacewith box, where ^& is the contents of thefind
what box.

PamC

Thanks. But I want to know how to do this for all instances of bold
(or italic).
How can I replace all instances of bold that was applied directly (not
via a Style) with a character style? Is that possible to do with one
replace function? The authors used direct formatting an awful lot and
we have to replace that with character styles. I'd rather not do that
by hand. Thank you for any help.

 

[yoshi.mitsou]

Sorry, I thought you saidWorddeleted your bold words instead of applying
the character style. Putting ^& in thereplacebox prevents that, though it
shouldn't have been necessary in this case. Yes, you can usefindandreplaceto what you want...pretty much the same way you did it before:

Thank you! That worked. I absolutely misunderstood your previous
instructions and think I placed the ^& in both the find and the
replace box. Leaving it just in the find box worked and I am thrilled.
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me!