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Changing _format_ to underline
Hi, all;
I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used _this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But I don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this. Thanks; Amy |
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Changing _format_ to underline
AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... Hi, all; I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used _this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But I don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this. Thanks; Amy |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled. Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today. Hope that clarifies. Thanks; Amy |
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Changing _format_ to underline
I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format | AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled. Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today. Hope that clarifies. Thanks; Amy |
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Changing _format_ to underline
On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:37:22 -0500, "Amy Blankenship"
wrote: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled. Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today. Autoformat is not the same as Autoreplace. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!
:-) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this. You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format | AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled. Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today. Hope that clarifies. Thanks; Amy |
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"Amy Blankenship" wrote:
Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool! :-) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this. You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format | AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently. On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type options) is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it will italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text. Am I missing somehting? |
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Changing _format_ to underline
Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message news "Amy Blankenship" wrote: Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool! :-) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this. You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format | AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently. On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type options) is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it will italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text. Am I missing somehting? |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with underline, I suppose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Thanks, all. BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport :-) |
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Changing _format_ to underline
Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW,
you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with underline, I suppose. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Thanks, all. BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport :-) |
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Changing _format_ to underline
On Fri, 9 May 2008 16:26:30 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW, you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday. Underlines are a hangover from old mechanical typewriters, which couldn't do italics, and were an indication to the typesetter to set in italics. Underlines should never be used with a proportional font, except to indicate inserted text in redlining (or whatever Microsoft want to call it now). -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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