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Converting all-caps to lowercase italics in whole doc
I'm editing an eText right now, converting it to an eBook, in Word 2007
(XP), and I've discovered that every time a word is meant to be emphasized, it's done so with all-caps text. The only way I know how to change this is to do a search for words using the following RegEx: [A-Z]{2,} Which, I think, works, although it would be a manual process. It doesn't highlight the actual words anyway, but just the first two letters. I.e., anything that's in all-caps, it will find (including chapter headings.) So, although I would have to learn how to implement a macro, I'm wondering if there is a way to write a macro that will find these all-caps words and convert them to lowercase, and italicize them. I would have to go and change all the chapter headings back, but that takes much less time. Thanks for any help anyone can offer. Hope all are well. Ian -- http://bookstacks.org/ |
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Converting all-caps to lowercase italics in whole doc
You can use "Find in" to select all the found text, then use Shift+F3 to
toggle to lowercase, then Ctrl+I to italicize. If Shift+F3 does not give the desired results, there is a Change Case button in the Font group on the Home tab that offers the same options as in the classic Change Case dialog (which can be accessed via Alt+O, E). I'm not sure why {2,} is finding only the first two letters; it should find strings of two or more characters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Ian Rastall" wrote in message ... I'm editing an eText right now, converting it to an eBook, in Word 2007 (XP), and I've discovered that every time a word is meant to be emphasized, it's done so with all-caps text. The only way I know how to change this is to do a search for words using the following RegEx: [A-Z]{2,} Which, I think, works, although it would be a manual process. It doesn't highlight the actual words anyway, but just the first two letters. I.e., anything that's in all-caps, it will find (including chapter headings.) So, although I would have to learn how to implement a macro, I'm wondering if there is a way to write a macro that will find these all-caps words and convert them to lowercase, and italicize them. I would have to go and change all the chapter headings back, but that takes much less time. Thanks for any help anyone can offer. Hope all are well. Ian -- http://bookstacks.org/ |
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