Thanks for your reply. I will try to be clearer.

I have a document where there are certain words that I want to extract to a new document. Lets' say there are lots of author's names embedded in a large document fairly randomly. And that the authors' names happen to be (uniquely) in Arial 13pt italic. If I could search for the formatting and append or prefix the contained word/name with '^p###' then I could sort by paragraph and the names would be grouped together.