Need help with Search & Replace wildcards

Hi all,

I have a very long Word document which I have to reformat
in certain way. Some of the changes include:

(1) applying I /I tags to all italics phrases (not
just words), (something like this: sample phrase
(formated in italics) -- Isample phrase/I);
(2) applying a a href="bword://wordword1/a tag to
some words I want to specify.
(3) applying a font color="blue"word/font to some
words I want to specify.

What bothers me is that I don't know which search and
replace strings I have to use since I'm not very familiar
with wildcards. What is important is that the search must
affect whole phrases with such formatting criteria not
just single words.

Can you help me with search & replace strings or a macro?

Thanks a lot

These are not wildcard searches

(1) Press CTRL+I (Italic) with the cursor in the search box and replace with
I^&\I
(2) Put the word in the search box and replace with a
href="bword://word^&/a
(3) Put the word in the search box and replace with font
color="blue"^&/font - if you want the text to appear blue in the document
then in addition add format font blue to the replace string

For background on wildcard searches - see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




Ivaylo wrote:
Hi all,

I have a very long Word document which I have to reformat
in certain way. Some of the changes include:

(1) applying I /I tags to all italics phrases (not
just words), (something like this: sample phrase
(formated in italics) -- Isample phrase/I);
(2) applying a a href="bword://wordword1/a tag to
some words I want to specify.
(3) applying a font color="blue"word/font to some
words I want to specify.

What bothers me is that I don't know which search and
replace strings I have to use since I'm not very familiar
with wildcards. What is important is that the search must
affect whole phrases with such formatting criteria not
just single words.

Can you help me with search & replace strings or a macro?

Thanks a lot

Thank you very much, Graham,

It solved my problems perfectly.

Ivaylo

-----Original Message-----
These are not wildcard searches

(1) Press CTRL+I (Italic) with the cursor in the search
box and replace with
I^&\I
(2) Put the word in the search box and replace with a
href="bword://word^&/a
(3) Put the word in the search box and replace with font
color="blue"^&/font - if you want the text to appear
blue in the document
then in addition add format font blue to the replace
string

For background on wildcard searches - see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




Ivaylo wrote:
Hi all,

I have a very long Word document which I have to
reformat
in certain way. Some of the changes include:

(1) applying I /I tags to all italics phrases (not
just words), (something like this: sample phrase
(formated in italics) -- Isample phrase/I);
(2) applying a a href="bword://wordword1/a tag to
some words I want to specify.
(3) applying a font color="blue"word/font to some
words I want to specify.

What bothers me is that I don't know which search and
replace strings I have to use since I'm not very
familiar
with wildcards. What is important is that the search
must
affect whole phrases with such formatting criteria not
just single words.

Can you help me with search & replace strings or a
macro?

Thanks a lot


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