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Default How to apply HeadingX to all paragraphs containing search string

Will look into it. Thanks!

On Mar 20, 3:06*pm, PamC wrote:
Your5 method could also create lots of unlinked styles. *Not so good. *
Instead create (I would just record) a macro that finds the string, deselects
the string by moving the cursor, and then applies the style. (As long as *the
cursor is in the ppg--but has nothing selected--the style will apply to the
entire paragraph.) *Then edit the code to make it loop. *I got my *tips on
how to do that from *an Editorium.com article
(blog.editorium.com/2002/03/20/repeating-macros/) though I suspect *that the
Word MVP site has similar helps.

PamC



"Paul" wrote:
I'm using wildcards to highlight all paragraphs containing a certain
string expression. *I then click on Heading 1 (or 2, or whatever
number) to apply the Heading 1 style. *This doesn't make the paragraph
into a Heading 1 paragraph. *After some experimenting, I realized it's
because the highlighted portions do not encompass the whole
paragraph. *I have many such style applications to do, for various
heading levels, each relying on the Find function to highlight a
certain string expression in all applicable paragraphs. *Is there a
way to accomplish this?


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