set up specific text formatting dictionary style

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I am creating a dictionary of words, and would like help setting up an auto
formatting - if it is possible.

I want to be able to type single lines of text, and have the font/style/pt
change automatically where appropriate without having to manually change it
(which is very time consuming). I want to know if this is possible.

To explain. I want to be able to set up so that if I write:

distract v. to deliberately draw someone's attention away from something

in the following styles:

[bold Arial 8pt]space[not bold but itallic 6pt]space[arial narrow normal
6pt]RETURN
(or basically like in any dictionary)

I want to be able to just type away, and have Word recognise
Style 1+space+Style 2+space+Style 3 and after RETURN to repeat sequence on
new line

I don't know if I have explained it clearly, but if I have 20,000 words
collated already, simply changing one small thing has to be changed 20,000
times.


Can anyone help???


JESSE KARJALAINEN
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The easiest way to do this will the to use a three column table with the
first cell formatted Bold Arial 8pt, the second Italic Arial 6pt and the
third Arial Narrow Normal 6pt. Then use tab to move from cell to cell.
Later, you can convert the table to text (using that item on the Tables
menu) and have the data from each cell separated by a space.

If you have some of the list typed already, you could use Edit replace to
replace <space>v.<space> with <tab>v.<tab> and then use Convert Text to
Table to get a three column table and select each column in turn and apply
the desired formatting to it.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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