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STL Orca
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December 10, 2015
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Change only some instances of a paragraph tag with another paragraph tag

  • December 10, 2015
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Hey gang,

I know about the Paragraph Tag option in Find and Replace.  How do I narrow that to only certain instances of the given tag?

Here's what I want to do:

1. I have a number of headings with paragraph tag "Heading 7".

2. I want to find text of paragraph tag "Heading 7" and containing only the text "Inputs", "Processing", or "Outputs".

3. Then I want to change the paragraph tag of those specific headings to Heading 8.

Any thoughts?

-terry-

FM11, Windows 7 Professional

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Correct answer Mike-Hardy

If the character formatting in Heading 7 is unique, you could copy the word "Inputs" to the clipboard from an existing Heading 7, and then find Text & Character Formats on Clipboard. You would have to repeat this for each of the other words.

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Mike-HardyCorrect answer
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December 11, 2015

If the character formatting in Heading 7 is unique, you could copy the word "Inputs" to the clipboard from an existing Heading 7, and then find Text & Character Formats on Clipboard. You would have to repeat this for each of the other words.

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STL OrcaAuthor
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December 11, 2015

Well, sadly, the character formatting is the same as the other heading levels, but you've given me an idea:

1. Change the font size for Heading 7 to something unique via the Paragraph Designer > Update All button.

2. Perform the actions you described for each of the three keywords.

3. Change the Heading 7 font size back to the original size.

4.  Profit!

Thanks--that's a great tip.  That ought to save me a bit of time (there are over 100 instances each of those three words.)

-terry-

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