Hi, hope someone can help me. I'm not sure if this is even possible. I have MS Word 2007 and I'm looking to edit a fiction book and need to search for various different words and phrases to improve the book's prose, however I dont want to search for these words and phrases in the characters' dialogue. Is this possible? bearing in mind I am English and all the character dialogue is contained/enclosed within single speech marks rather than double marks as are typically used in the U.S. (not that this should make much difference for the search).

Furthermore, if this can be done, would it also be possible to also exclude all italic words from the search as this will exclude searching the characters' thoughts which I want to bypass as well?

Hope someone can help as this could save me a massive amount of time, although I fear it may require a macro of some type to achieve.
Yours sincerely
Rob