How to automate BOLD in a line

[madbrit]

Hi all, new to this thread

I have a document of over 3,000 pages, I want to make some lines bold, the lines I want bold contain the open and closed brackets ( ) these are the only lines I want bold.

Is there a way I can search the document and tell MS word 2007 that any line that containes the ( and ) to be bold, the line could be any length but only that line contains the ( and ).

As the Brackets ( and ) are used as expressions in wild cards I can change them to anything is this makes it easier.

Hope someone can help there are over 3000 lines to convert to bold

Thanks

MaqdBriT

[macropod]

Hi MaqdBriT,

You can use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = \([!\)]{1,}\)
Replace = ^&
and the replacement font format is set to bold.

[madbrit]

Thanks, that selects the two brackets and whats inside, but I need the whole line to be bold, a sample line is below

Al Bumbah North (HL0M)

I need the whole line to be bold, not just the brackets

Thanks, any idea???

Kind Regards

MadBriT

[macropod]

Hi MadBriT,

If the 'whole line' is a paragraph, you could use a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = [!\(^13]{1,}\([!^13]{1,}
Replace = ^&
and the replacement font format is set to bold.

Note: The Find code now only looks for paragraphs with the opening bracket, then selects all the text in the paragraph concerned. To make the Find/Replace more efficient, you could specify the Find text as 'Not Bold', but that will only be of use if none of the text is already bolded.

[madbrit]

Mate, you have saved me soooooo much work, cant thank you enough.

Tell me, where can I get a good list of these codes you have used and there uses??

Thanks again

MAdbRit

[macropod]

Hi MAdbRit,

The Find/Replace codes are listed in Word's help file. I don't know that there are any tutorials, per se, on their use, but web searches for 'Word wildcard Find/Replace' should turn up some useful examples.