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November 9, 2009
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Find/Change character tags

  • November 9, 2009
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Hi, I have a long document which uses lots of Bold text but not always with the Bold Character Tag applied. Much of the formatting was done 'on the fly' buy hitting Ctrl-B. I'd like to find all those instances of Bold text with no character tag applied and change them so that the Bold character tag is applied to them all. I've tried copying each example and finding/changing but it doesn't seem to be working. Can this be done? Any tips? Many thanks, Simon

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    Correct answer Art_Campbell1

    It's not too bad.

    First, apply the Character tag to a word. Put the cursor in the word, but don't select it. Do a Copy Special > Character Format to put your Bold tag on the clipboard.

    Put your cursor somewhere in a string that was set up with the Control-B override. Then do a Find > Character Format (NOT tag). A dialog box will pop up showing the attributes of the text passage.

    Set Replace to From Clipboard.

    Do a test Find and manual Replace to make sure it's doing what you want. Then turn it loose. It will likely find and replace all the existing strings of the Character Tag as well as the overrides, but no harm done.

    Art

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    Art_Campbell1Correct answer
    Inspiring
    November 9, 2009

    It's not too bad.

    First, apply the Character tag to a word. Put the cursor in the word, but don't select it. Do a Copy Special > Character Format to put your Bold tag on the clipboard.

    Put your cursor somewhere in a string that was set up with the Control-B override. Then do a Find > Character Format (NOT tag). A dialog box will pop up showing the attributes of the text passage.

    Set Replace to From Clipboard.

    Do a test Find and manual Replace to make sure it's doing what you want. Then turn it loose. It will likely find and replace all the existing strings of the Character Tag as well as the overrides, but no harm done.

    Art

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    Anonymous
    November 9, 2009

    Brilliant, thank you Art. That did most of what I wanted to do but (probably for reasons within the documents) it skipped several individual words throughout the book that had Bold formatting but no tags. I guess I'll go and think about why that may be. Many thanks, Simon

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    Art_Campbell1
    Inspiring
    November 9, 2009

    Just guessing, but the reason it probably skipped some words is because in the second step, where you sucked the format of the text string into the Find window, a font and size were specified.

    Try it again, and set the font and/or size to AsIs and it'll broaden the search.

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