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Octavee Uhl - 16 Mar 2007 19:42 GMT

Hello,

I have a task that I want to automate as much as possible.
In a long document I have a style called Heading 3 which is bold and has
titles of movies. And at the end of each title there is a year in
parenthesis like this:
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Now I want to unbold the Year and Parenthesis for all these entries in
Heading 3.
Is there a way to do this as a find and replace or macro?

Thanks so much
Octavee

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Jezebel - 17 Mar 2007 00:26 GMT

Find and Replace will do it.

Find: (^#^#^#^#) style = Heading 3
Replace: ^& font = not bold

You need to click More on the dialog to get to the formatting options.

> Hello,
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> Thanks so much
> Octavee

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Jay Freedman - 17 Mar 2007 00:57 GMT

Find/Replace will do it without a macro.

In that dialog, first click the More button.

In the Find What box, type

(^#^#^#^#)

which represents four digits within parentheses (or you can click the
Special button and select "Any Digit" to get one ^# code and repeat
that four times). Click the Format button at the bottom of the dialog,
choose Style from the dropdown menu, and select Heading 3 in the
dialog. When you click OK, you should see "Format: Style: Heading 3"
below the Find What box.

In the Replace With box, type

^&

which represents the Find What Text, that is, whatever the Find What
expression matches each time. Then press Ctrl+B twice, so it says
"Format: Font: Not Bold" below the Replace With box.

Finally, click the Replace All button.

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>Octavee

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