When working on legal agreements etc. I find that I often have to bold text
in quotes and/or square brackets and I know that there is a quick way of
doing this using Find and Replace but can't remember what it is, can anyone
help at all?

Thanks

Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Noella" wrote in message
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When working on legal agreements etc. I find that I often have to bold
text
in quotes and/or square brackets and I know that there is a quick way of
doing this using Find and Replace but can't remember what it is, can
anyone
help at all?

Thanks

A shortcut for the bold formatting is just to press Ctrl+B in the box.

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"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message
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Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Noella" wrote in message
...
When working on legal agreements etc. I find that I often have to bold
text
in quotes and/or square brackets and I know that there is a quick way of
doing this using Find and Replace but can't remember what it is, can
anyone
help at all?

Thanks

"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com

Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

A macro to do this would be useful...

Any volunteers?

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Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

What, exactly, would you like the macro to do? A simple Find and Replace, or
something more involved?

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Opinicus" wrote in message
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"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com

Look for "*" (if " is your delimiting character)
Replace with (leave blank)
With cursor in Replace, click on Format Font and select Bold
Check "Use Wildcards"
Press "Replace All"

If using square brackets, these have special meaning to wildcard Finds
so
you must enter \[ and \] respectively to actually look for [ and ] (i.e.
Find \[*\])

A macro to do this would be useful...

Any volunteers?

--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com