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Replace-all with a style
Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and
use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere). |
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In this case, since the text already has the correct style, there is no need
to find & replace. Instead, in order to reset text formatting to that of the underlying style, just select the text and press Ctrl+Q (resets paragraph formatting) and Ctrl+SpaceBar (resets font formatting). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere). |
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In 2003 you can -- Find/Replace More Format Style. Was that
available in 2000? On Jul 30, 8:28 am, Paul wrote: Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere). |
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It is available in Word 2000, but it was not working as expected
yesterday. It was replacing entire paragraphs with null strings. Today, it works... not sure if the reason for yesterday's behaviour was because of augmentation formatting on top of the named style. Today, in my first crack, it replaced all styles throughout the document, but I think it was finger trouble. Second try, it worked as expected and only replaced within the swath of selected text. Thanks for the prod to try again. On Jul 30, 8:41*am, grammatim wrote: In 2003 you can -- Find/Replace More Format Style. Was that available in 2000? On Jul 30, 8:28 am, Paul wrote: Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. *Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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That is quite some useful trivia there. When I pressed ctrl-Q on a
proper-looking paragraph, it reverted to the look of the improperly formatted paragraph having the same style name. That tells me that the underlying style was not properly set, which was the cause of the anomalous behaviour. Easy to fix handraulically. However, I was wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. On Jul 30, 8:39*am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: In this case, since the text already has the correct style, there is no need to find & replace. Instead, in order to reset text formatting to that of the underlying style, just select the text and press Ctrl+Q (resets paragraph formatting) and Ctrl+SpaceBar (resets font formatting). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. *Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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However, I was
wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. In Word 2002 and above, you can select a formatted paragraph, click the arrow beside the style of interest in the Styles & Formatting task pane, and choose Update to Match Selection. But if the paragraph is actually *in* the style in question, you should be able to reselect the style in the Style dropdown, which will trigger a dialog asking if you want to update the style to match the selection. But if you have "Automatically update" enabled for the style (that is, in the Modify Style dialog), this should be happening automatically. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... That is quite some useful trivia there. When I pressed ctrl-Q on a proper-looking paragraph, it reverted to the look of the improperly formatted paragraph having the same style name. That tells me that the underlying style was not properly set, which was the cause of the anomalous behaviour. Easy to fix handraulically. However, I was wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. On Jul 30, 8:39 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: In this case, since the text already has the correct style, there is no need to find & replace. Instead, in order to reset text formatting to that of the underlying style, just select the text and press Ctrl+Q (resets paragraph formatting) and Ctrl+SpaceBar (resets font formatting). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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Note that a possible source of trouble when you first tried this could have
been "left-over" settings in the Find and Replace dialog box. When starting a new find & replace it is best to clear the current settings (text and formatting). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... It is available in Word 2000, but it was not working as expected yesterday. It was replacing entire paragraphs with null strings. Today, it works... not sure if the reason for yesterday's behaviour was because of augmentation formatting on top of the named style. Today, in my first crack, it replaced all styles throughout the document, but I think it was finger trouble. Second try, it worked as expected and only replaced within the swath of selected text. Thanks for the prod to try again. On Jul 30, 8:41 am, grammatim wrote: In 2003 you can -- Find/Replace More Format Style. Was that available in 2000? On Jul 30, 8:28 am, Paul wrote: Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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On Jul 31, 9:51 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
However, I was wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. In Word 2002 and above, you can select a formatted paragraph, click the arrow beside the style of interest in the Styles & Formatting task pane, and choose Update to Match Selection. But if the paragraph is actually *in* the style in question, you should be able to reselect the style in the Style dropdown, which will trigger a dialog asking if you want to update the style to match the selection. But if you have "Automatically update" enabled for the style (that is, in the Modify Style dialog), this should be happening automatically. In Word 2000, I've never seen a style pane along the right side like in 2003. Neither have I found a way to activate such a pane. There is only style drop-down menu at the top. The styles that show there have no down-arrow that generates a list of actions that include updating the style to match the selection. This is when I select a paragraph style other than that of the selected paragraph. However, if I choose open the style drop-down menu and select the same style name as the one for the selected paragraph, I am indeed asked whether I want to update the style definition, or re-apply the formatting of the style to the paragraph. One out of two ain't bad -- thanks! "Paul" wrote in message ... That is quite some useful trivia there. When I pressed ctrl-Q on a proper-looking paragraph, it reverted to the look of the improperly formatted paragraph having the same style name. That tells me that the underlying style was not properly set, which was the cause of the anomalous behaviour. Easy to fix handraulically. However, I was wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. On Jul 30, 8:39 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: In this case, since the text already has the correct style, there is no need to find & replace. Instead, in order to reset text formatting to that of the underlying style, just select the text and press Ctrl+Q (resets paragraph formatting) and Ctrl+SpaceBar (resets font formatting). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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Replace-all with a style
I'm pretty sure I erased anything that was in the text box, and
clicked on the button to remove all formatting....but I agree that such a suspected cause would be the first candidate that comes to mind. On Aug 4, 4:26 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Note that a possible source of trouble when you first tried this could have been "left-over" settings in the Find and Replace dialog box. When starting a new find & replace it is best to clear the current settings (text and formatting). "Paul" wrote in message ... It is available in Word 2000, but it was not working as expected yesterday. It was replacing entire paragraphs with null strings. Today, it works... not sure if the reason for yesterday's behaviour was because of augmentation formatting on top of the named style. Today, in my first crack, it replaced all styles throughout the document, but I think it was finger trouble. Second try, it worked as expected and only replaced within the swath of selected text. Thanks for the prod to try again. On Jul 30, 8:41 am, grammatim wrote: In 2003 you can -- Find/Replace More Format Style. Was that available in 2000? On Jul 30, 8:28 am, Paul wrote: Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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"Paul" wrote in message
... In Word 2000, I've never seen a style pane along the right side like in 2003. Neither have I found a way to activate such a pane. There is only style drop-down menu at the top. The styles that show there have no down-arrow that generates a list of actions that include updating the style to match the selection. This is when I select a paragraph style other than that of the selected paragraph. However, if I choose open the style drop-down menu and select the same style name as the one for the selected paragraph, I am indeed asked whether I want to update the style definition, or re-apply the formatting of the style to the paragraph. Yes, that's the way to do it in Word 2000. :-) FWIW, task panes were introduced in Word 2002. In Word 2000 (and 97) there was the Style box on the toolbar and the Format | Style dialog box. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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You'll note that I began with "In Word 2002 and above," which pretty much
eliminates Word 2000. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... On Jul 31, 9:51 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: However, I was wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. In Word 2002 and above, you can select a formatted paragraph, click the arrow beside the style of interest in the Styles & Formatting task pane, and choose Update to Match Selection. But if the paragraph is actually *in* the style in question, you should be able to reselect the style in the Style dropdown, which will trigger a dialog asking if you want to update the style to match the selection. But if you have "Automatically update" enabled for the style (that is, in the Modify Style dialog), this should be happening automatically. In Word 2000, I've never seen a style pane along the right side like in 2003. Neither have I found a way to activate such a pane. There is only style drop-down menu at the top. The styles that show there have no down-arrow that generates a list of actions that include updating the style to match the selection. This is when I select a paragraph style other than that of the selected paragraph. However, if I choose open the style drop-down menu and select the same style name as the one for the selected paragraph, I am indeed asked whether I want to update the style definition, or re-apply the formatting of the style to the paragraph. One out of two ain't bad -- thanks! "Paul" wrote in message ... That is quite some useful trivia there. When I pressed ctrl-Q on a proper-looking paragraph, it reverted to the look of the improperly formatted paragraph having the same style name. That tells me that the underlying style was not properly set, which was the cause of the anomalous behaviour. Easy to fix handraulically. However, I was wondering if there was a way to conveniently have the style name of interest take on the formatting of a paragraph of interest without going into the style definition and manually setting up the details? I already have "Automatic Update" turned on. On Jul 30, 8:39 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: In this case, since the text already has the correct style, there is no need to find & replace. Instead, in order to reset text formatting to that of the underlying style, just select the text and press Ctrl+Q (resets paragraph formatting) and Ctrl+SpaceBar (resets font formatting). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Paul" wrote in message ... Using Word 2000, I can select a whole whack of contiguous text, and use replace-all to replace all occurances of a word with a new word. I would like to select a whole whack of contiguous text, replace all occurances of a style with a new style. Is there a way to do this? While it is not the main part of this question, it just so happens that the new style has the same name as the old style to be replaced, but the paragraphs don't appear like other paragraphs that have that style (the whack of contiguous text was pasted in from elsewhere |
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