[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"Words into Type" (admittedly now much out of date) is quite explicit (pp.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."

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

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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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
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
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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.)

On Jul 19, 2:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
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.

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

"DTerence" wrote in message

...

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