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Quotes to italics
Is there any way of getting Word to look for text contained within quotes and
then change the text to italics? |
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To: Jeff,
Do a Find and Replace (click Ctrl-H). The Find and Replace dialoge box should appear, add: to Find what: "(*)" or: ("*") (the first omits the quote marks, the second keeps them) add to Replace with: \1 Click on More Check Wildcards with Replace with: \1 selected (that is, with \1 in reverse video) click on format - font - Italic The phrase "Format: Font: Italic" should show up underneath Repace with: Then click on Replace or Replace All and you're done. Note: the brackets () create one expression, the result is \1. Inside the expression is the wildcard character * (an asterisk), which represents one or more characters. The quotaion marks can be either inside the expression, or outside. If they are outside the expression, then they will not be included with the replaced text, if they are inside the expression, they will. Steven Craig Miller "Jeff" wrote: Is there any way of getting Word to look for text contained within quotes and then change the text to italics? |
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In addition to SteveM's message I would add a format of "Not Italic" to the
Find criteria. This will ensure that the Find doesn't find the text between a quote that has already been found and the next open-quote of the next pairing. All the best. DeanH "Jeff" wrote: Is there any way of getting Word to look for text contained within quotes and then change the text to italics? |
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My previous posting obviously relates to the scenario that the quotation
marks are being retained and not deleted. If being deleted - pleased ignore ;-) |
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Regarding my previous posting, this relates to the quotation marks being
retained and not deleted. If deleted - please ignore ;-) "DeanH" wrote: In addition to SteveM's message I would add a format of "Not Italic" to the Find criteria. This will ensure that the Find doesn't find the text between a quote that has already been found and the next open-quote of the next pairing. All the best. DeanH "Jeff" wrote: Is there any way of getting Word to look for text contained within quotes and then change the text to italics? |
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Perfect!
Thanks "StevenM" wrote: To: Jeff, Do a Find and Replace (click Ctrl-H). The Find and Replace dialoge box should appear, add: to Find what: "(*)" or: ("*") (the first omits the quote marks, the second keeps them) add to Replace with: \1 Click on More Check Wildcards with Replace with: \1 selected (that is, with \1 in reverse video) click on format - font - Italic The phrase "Format: Font: Italic" should show up underneath Repace with: Then click on Replace or Replace All and you're done. Note: the brackets () create one expression, the result is \1. Inside the expression is the wildcard character * (an asterisk), which represents one or more characters. The quotaion marks can be either inside the expression, or outside. If they are outside the expression, then they will not be included with the replaced text, if they are inside the expression, they will. Steven Craig Miller "Jeff" wrote: Is there any way of getting Word to look for text contained within quotes and then change the text to italics? |
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