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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / August 2004Search for underlined text
I'd like to search for underlined text and replace the underlining with italics. How can I do this? In Word 2002 on XP, in Edit|Find|Format|Font there's a place to specify an underline style but I couldn't get this to work. Thanks. Greg Greg, What isn't working. Are you getting underline replaced with underlined italic? You also need to define no underline in the replace with field >-----Original Message----- >I'd like to search for underlined text and replace the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Greg >. I was just trying to find underlined text first. I hadn't set the font. It looks like you have to pick a font and a style of underlining. It would be nice if Word could find underlined text in any font and any kind of underlining. I got it to find underlined text and the replace added italics but didn't get rid of the underlining, so I went back and did that by hand. That was clumsy but it worked. >-----Original Message----- >Greg, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >. No, not true. Here's how to find underlined text in any font and replace it with italics: 1. In the "Find what" box, press Ctrl+U. Leave the box empty. You'll see Format: Underline. 2. In the "Replace with" box (also empty), press Ctrl+I, then press Ctrl+U *twice.* You'll see Format: Font: Italic, no underline. 3. Replace All. This is not a perfect replace because most likely punctuation following words is not underlined (it should not be), but some punctuation (commas and periods at a minimum) should be italicized.  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I was just trying to find underlined text first. I hadn't > set the font. It looks like you have to pick a font and a [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >> > >. |
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