Hi everyone


Hope I am posting this in the right place. I really, really need help. I have several hundred pages. I have lines that are in bold and italic like this:

Who are these foreign investors?

What I need to do is change each line that is in Italic and Bold to having brackets around it, like this

[Who are these foreign investors?]

Is there any possible way to do this with find/replace?
I would really, really appreciate any thoughts!
Thanks!
Greg

You may wish to work on a copy of your document, but this is working for me:
In find:
(*)^13

In replace:
[\1]^p

Try one at a time. If it's working, use Replace all.

^13 is used for a paragraph break in the Find.
\1 means replace what was found.

Best,
Ulodesk

What would the s/r terms be if the bold/ital entries were styled? Reading this post, I realise that this handy 'wrap found text in square brackets' is something I could do in a text editor but have never stopped to think about doing in Word.

Well, Paul Edstein and others may know better, but the same dropdown in the F/R dialogue that lists Font, lists Style. Apply relevant style to each.

Exactly. The F/R only becomes an issue if you want the square brackets to be formatted differently.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]