Putting italics back into a document

[lordofscones]

A tricky one:



I have a document that I needed to remove all formatting, all hidden codes, headers, footers--everything--so it could be converted into an eBook.

Following their guide (Smashwords), I pasted the whole doc into notepad, then back into Word 2010 in a new file.

This is fine, except for one thing. I still need the italics, or the dialogue loses its emphasis.

So, is there any way to use the original document as a template to scan the new, unformatted one and only replace the italics? I thought about Compare Documents...but it didn't get me anywhere.

Any help appreciated.