[Amy Blankenship]

Hi, all;

I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used
_this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But I
don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this.

Thanks;

Amy

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Amy Blankenship" wrote in message
...
Hi, all;

I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used
_this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But
I don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this.

Thanks;

Amy

[Amy Blankenship]

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today.

Hope that clarifies.

Thanks;

Amy

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Amy Blankenship" wrote in message
...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing
today.

Hope that clarifies.

Thanks;

Amy

[Steve Hayes]

On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:37:22 -0500, "Amy Blankenship"
wrote:


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today.

Autoformat is not the same as Autoreplace.


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Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
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[Amy Blankenship]

Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

:-)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Amy Blankenship" wrote in message
...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing
today.

Hope that clarifies.

Thanks;

Amy

[Jean-Guy Marcil[_2_]]

"Amy Blankenship" wrote:

Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

:-)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type options)
is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it will
italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text.

Am I missing somehting?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message
news
"Amy Blankenship" wrote:

Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

:-)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do
this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type
options)
is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it
will
italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text.

Am I missing somehting?

[Amy Blankenship]

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Thanks, all.

BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport :-)

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW,
you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Amy Blankenship" wrote in message
...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Thanks, all.

BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport :-)

[Steve Hayes]

On Fri, 9 May 2008 16:26:30 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW,
you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday.

Underlines are a hangover from old mechanical typewriters, which couldn't do
italics, and were an indication to the typesetter to set in italics.

Underlines should never be used with a proportional font, except to indicate
inserted text in redlining (or whatever Microsoft want to call it now).


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk