Styles/Tags

[Wayne]

Word 2000

I have a large (175 page) document created by someone
else. The document is full of different styles Body Text
Indent 3, Comment Text, etc., etc. The font is set to
Arial 12 on most all these styles so the document looks
consistent if it is printed.

I've noticed that if I type new text in the document and
set the style to Comment Text for example, then the font
is actually Times New Roman. That is, the Comment Text
Style is set up as Times New Roman font. I can manually
change the font to Arial for the text I type in and then
the Comment Text Style appears on the page just like the
Normal style. This is what has been done in this document.

I can go through the document character by character and
change these styles to Normal as I locate them. This is a
tedious task.

Can I automatically convert these styles to Normal? (I
could highlight the entire document and select the Normal
style I suppose but there are lots of images, tables, and
bulleted and numbered lists that I want to keep intact.)

Thank you!

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

I'm sure there are better ways, but you can certainly do a Find& Replace for
each style. Leaving the boxes blank, format Find What as Style: Comment Text
and Replace With as Style: Normal. Repeat for the other styles you want to
switch.

DM

 

[Larry]

In addition to what Dayo said, if this is something you do often, you
could also use this macro as your pattern or other style changes. Just
change the style names as appropriate.


With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Style = "Comment Text"
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.Style = "Normal"
.Execute findText:="", ReplaceWith:="", _
Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Format:=True
End With


Larry

 

[Wayne]

Thanks Dayo and Larry!

Both your suggestions work.

Wayne