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Hi all
I am exasperated!! I have a document with a lot of text formatted as Italic that I wish to replace with the same text within quotation marks. I googled (as most do) to find an answer - one site described the use of ^& in the replace box: with an answer that said it worked. However, I cannot get it to work!! Can anyone assist please? To be clear, using Ctrl+H I have set the 'Find what' to search for format Italic and added '^&' in to the 'Replace with' box and set format to 'Not Italic'. The result I am getting is; Text is becoming Text''. Any help would be greatly received: Is there a setting somewhere I am missing? Thanks Mercurial |
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Your description suggests you have 'Track Changes' switched on. Switch it off and try again.
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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In my experience, if you have any format settings in the Replace box then the replacement formatting happens but the content replacement won't. You need to do this in two steps:
1. Do the replacement as described but don't put any replacement formatting on 2. Either do a second pass with the replace with formatting OR select all and uncheck the italic font setting.
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Andrew Lockton Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia |
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Hi macropod
Thank you so much for your reply. Yes - I had 'Track Changes' on. I turned this off and it works perfectly! It is unfortunate as I need to show the changes to the author. Really appreciate your time. Many thanks Mercurial |
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Hi Guessed
Thanks for taking the time to reply. macropod hit the nail on the head and it is all working now. Thanks Mercurial |
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You could achieve the desired effect with 'Track Changes' using a macro such as:
Code:
Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim i As Long
With ActiveDocument.Range
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Text = ""
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Font.Italic = True
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = True
End With
Do While .Find.Execute
i = i + 1
.InsertBefore "("
With .Duplicate
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
.Text = ")"
.Font.Italic = False
End With
If .Information(wdWithInTable) = True Then
If .End = .Cells(1).Range.End - 1 Then
.End = .Cells(1).Range.End
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
If .Information(wdAtEndOfRowMarker) = True Then
.End = .End + 1
End If
End If
End If
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
If (ActiveDocument.Range.End - .End) < 2 Then Exit Do
Loop
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
MsgBox i & " instances found."
End Sub
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: Word:mac - Install a Macro
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