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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / October 2004Formatting number of text boxes at once
Hiya, I have a very long document, 90 pages of which are full of text boxes (15 text boxes to a page -a colleagues idea of a 'form'). I have now inherited this document and the text within the text boxes does not (now) match the corporate image - i.e. it should all be Arial 10pt not Times New Roman 12pt. I have to change it. However, if I select more than one text box at a time (shift - left mouse-click) the option to change the font and font size is greyed out. Is there a way of doing this? I really dont want to spend days doing each text box individually. Many thanks for any help or pointer to a resource, Shaun Have you tried doing just this: Ctrl+A and change the font and point size (through Format | Font if necessary)? Whenever you select more than a certain amount of text, many of the formatting options are blanked, but they are still usable.  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. > Hiya, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Many thanks for any help or pointer to a resource, Shaun > Have you tried doing just this: Ctrl+A and change the font and point size > (through Format | Font if necessary)? Whenever you select more than a [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> Many thanks for any help or pointer to a resource, Shaun Hi Suzanne, Thanks for the reply but that selects just the text outside the text boxes and not that inside which also has to be changed - unless I'm missing something? Cheers, Shaun I guess you're right. That being the case, I think you'd have to have a macro to change the font. Alternatively, you should be able to use Find and Replace to find all the text in a given style (including that in text boxes) and apply the Default Paragraph Font (assuming that that has been changed to Arial 10 pt). 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. > > Have you tried doing just this: Ctrl+A and change the font and point size > > (through Format | Font if necessary)? Whenever you select more than a [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Cheers, Shaun >I guess you're right. That being the case, I think you'd have to have a > macro to change the font. Alternatively, you should be able to use Find [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to > Arial 10 pt). I'll have a look at that. Thanks again, Shaun >I guess you're right. That being the case, I think you'd have to have a > macro to change the font. Alternatively, you should be able to use Find [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >> >> Cheers, Shaun Suzanne, Many thanks for your help. I have used 'find' 'replace' before but had no idea I could use it to find and replace formatting (fonts etc). It works a treat and I'm very grateful. Shaun |
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