converting italic to underline

[DTerence]

I want convert all italicized text to underlined text globally in one step.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ctrl+H to open the replace dialog. In the "Find what" box, press Ctrl+I. In
the "Replace with" box, press Ctrl+U. Replace All.

Note that if punctuation following italicized text has been (correctly)
italicized, it will also be underlined, so you may need to rerun replace to
find underlined periods, commas, etc. and remove the underline. If you find
you need to do this, type the punctuation mark into the "Find what" box and
press Ctrl+U (after clearing the Ctrl+I formatting). In the "Replace with"
box, type the same punctuation mark (or ^&) and press Ctrl+U a second time
to get Format: Font: No Underline.

 

[Lene Fredborg]

You can use Find and Replace to do that:
1. Make sure nothing is selected in the document.
2. Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box. Click the “Moreâ€
button and make sure the two fields are empty and that no check boxes are
checked (the “No Formatting†button will clear any formatting listed below
the fields).
3. Click in the “Find what†field and press Ctrl+I (now “Font: Italicâ€
should appear below the field).
4. Click in the “Replace with†field. Press Ctrl+I twice (now “Font:Not
Italic should appear below the field). Then press Ctrl+U (now “Underlineâ€
should also appear below the field).
5. Click the “Replace All†button.

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Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
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[grammatim]

Uh-oh, there you are using a different style manual again! Following
punctuation should only be italicized on the rare occasions when it's
part of the material being italicized, as opposed to being part of the
"matrix sentence" into which italicized material has been inserted.
(And Word recognizes this by not including following punctuation when
double-clicking to select a word.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I thought I was following "Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the
University Press, Oxford." I'm still convinced it's in there somewhere,
though I can never find it. The "Chicago Manual of Style" deals with this
(§§6.3 and 6.5) The latter section describes the rule I learned ("a more
traditional system"), the former Chicago's current thinking, which is as you
describe. "This departure from Chicago's former usage serves both simplicity
and logic."

One of the examples given is: "Smith played the title role in Hamlet,
Macbeth, and King Lear; after his final performance, during which many in
the audience wept, he announced his retirement." I still think this looks
more graceful with at least the commas italicized.

In any case, the problem at hand doesn't depend on what style you or I might
use but the style used by the person who applied the italics in the document
in question.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As Lene points out, you do need to add Not Italic (Ctrl+I twice) in the
"Replace with" dialog for this to work. Sorry!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

"Words into Type" (admittedly now much out of date) is quite explicit (pp.
172-173):

"Commas, colons, and semicolons are set in the typeface (italic or boldface)
of the preceding word. Quotation marks, exclamation points, question marks,
and parentheses are set according to the overall context of the sentence."

WiT adds this reservation: "A single italic letter preceding any punctuation
mark does not justify setting the mark in italic type."

 

[grammatim]

I usually don't approve of the recent divergences from Mrs. Turabian's
dicta (unfortunately I never knew her), but this one is for the
better.