Bolding text in quotes

[Guest]

When working on legal agreements etc. I find that I often have to bold text
in quotes and/or square brackets and I know that there is a quick way of
doing this using Find and Replace but can't remember what it is, can anyone
help at all?

Thanks

 

[Tony Jollans]

Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format > Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A shortcut for the bold formatting is just to press Ctrl+B in the box.

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Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format > Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

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Enjoy,
Tony

When working on legal agreements etc. I find that I often have to bold text
in quotes and/or square brackets and I know that there is a quick way of
doing this using Find and Replace but can't remember what it is, can anyone
help at all?

Thanks

 

[Opinicus]

Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format > Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

A macro to do this would be useful...

Any volunteers?

 

[Tony Jollans]

What, exactly, would you like the macro to do? A simple Find and Replace, or
something more involved?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format > Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

A macro to do this would be useful...

Any volunteers?