As I go through this nearly two hundred page document I notice that the
person that wrote it did not always make use of styles. She just altered
stlyes for the paragraph at hand. And so I have normal text, normal text
that happens to have been bulleted or numbered, or other variations. It
is maddening to clean this up.

Is there any way to process this using macros to alter stuff? I am
thinking about tests such as if a paragraph is bulleted use style x if
numbered use style y if font is size i use heading style w, etc.

Very tedious to do with macros, since you really have to set everything up
by hand. Probably simplest just to use Find and Replace. Click the More
button on the Find and Replace dialog, Leave the Search for and Replace with
boxes blank, but in both cases click in the box then click Format and
specify what yuou want to find and what to replace it with.

Or upgrade to W2003 which has the functionality for dealing with this
problem built in to the style task pane.




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As I go through this nearly two hundred page document I notice that the
person that wrote it did not always make use of styles. She just altered
stlyes for the paragraph at hand. And so I have normal text, normal text
that happens to have been bulleted or numbered, or other variations. It
is maddening to clean this up.

Is there any way to process this using macros to alter stuff? I am
thinking about tests such as if a paragraph is bulleted use style x if
numbered use style y if font is size i use heading style w, etc.