Hi, I'm trying to write a basic word - HTML conversion (since I can't find
any tool that actually does a clean job of it.) For example, I want to find
all instances of italics and replace them with i(original text)/i.
I've tried doing this in the search-and-replace:

Turned on "Use Wildcards", selected Format in the 'find' with Font of
"Italic", do a search for '*'.

In the replace with, I've set formatting to "Not Italic," and made the
replace string i^&/i .

I've also tried it with (*) in the find field and i\1/i in the replace
field.

My problem is that this seems to only be matching one character at a time --
I end up with i and /i around every individual character, instead of
around an entire word, part of a word, sentence or paragraph.

Any help would be much appreciated.