[PamC]

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?

Thanks.