Changing _format_ to underline

[Amy Blankenship]

Hi, all;

I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used
_this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But I
don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this.

Thanks;

Amy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

 

[Amy Blankenship]

AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today.

Hope that clarifies.

Thanks;

Amy

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

 

[Amy Blankenship]

Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type options)
is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it will
italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text.

Am I missing somehting?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

 

[Amy Blankenship]

Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Thanks, all.

BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW,
you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday.