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Old 09-26-2012, 05:37 AM
pogonoforysci1 pogonoforysci1 is offline Find and replace with mixed formatting Windows 7 64bit Find and replace with mixed formatting Office 2010 64bit
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Can anyone tell me how can I find and replace a phrase with another version which has the same text but different formatting (like OH to OH with the H in subscript) It is extremely important to me. At the moment I can replace it with both O and H in subscript but not with H in subscript only. I tried to just do find and change the highlighted bits manually but the highlight disappears when I paste into the first item that was highlighted. THIS IS EXTREMELY AGGRAVATING!!! is there a way to do find and then select all found items so I could replace them in one go by doing paste???? I will be very grateful for any help
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Old 09-26-2012, 07:55 AM
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Click More, then click Format or Special, depending on what you need to replace. If you need to match case, click Match case on the main Find and Replace dialog.

Read all the options so you can see what's available. The only problem I've ever had was finding and replacing symbols.

Highlight is one of the Format options, so select it when you create Replace With - in other words, select Highlight when your cursor is in Replace With and format the text accordingly.

Subscript is one of the Font options. I don't think you can replace one character in a text string as subscript, though. You'll need to do that in steps - create OH as subscript, then go back and replace any subscript "O" with regular "O". That leaves the "H" as substring.

Edited: Actually, I played around with it and it didn't seem to work the way I thought it should. I created subscript, then went back to replace one letter in the string. Even after I set the Replace With font to "Regular" and selected 11pt, it still remained very small, like the subtext. Maybe it's something you'll need to play around with.
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Old 09-26-2012, 09:16 AM
gmaxey gmaxey is offline Find and replace with mixed formatting Windows XP Find and replace with mixed formatting Office 2010 (Version 14.0)
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In your document format one instance of OH as OH(superscript H). Copy that instance to the clipboard (i.e, select it and copy).

In the find fields type: OH
In the replace field type: ^c
^c is the content of the clipboard.
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