Find and replace with wildcards

Report · Mar 30, 2017

Hello all. I'm new to Dreamweaver, and I've tried to find the answer on my question, but to no avail.

I am looking to use Find and Replace to delete extraneous code not needed in the projects I am working on. Even though this is specifically having to do with bolding text, I'm not sure how to approach it because of the variables needed.

An example would be this:

<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';

mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;

font-weight: bold;">ABCD

would need to be changed to this:

ABCD

Or this:

<span style="line-height: 115%;

font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">ABCD

to:

ABCD

The problem I'm having is to somehow make sure that if font-style: is included in the style, it is not omitted. E.g.

In this case, I would need the search string to be able to leave the italicized formatting. Would anyone have any ideas? Maybe a replace string that leaves all instances of font-weight and font-style? If it helps at all, these pages have already been developed in RoboHelp. But with over 13,000 pages, it would take a while to do it all by hand.

Report · Mar 30, 2017

Or better yet, how about removing ALL inline styles and using and tags for bold and italic? No tags needed.

Search for: <font

Hit Find ALL

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · Mar 31, 2017

The problem with this is that since the original source is RoboHelp, and future articles are going to be created using it (Dreamweaver is used for more advanced features solely.)

When bolding in RoboHelp, the code it creates is the code I displayed earlier.

At this point, I'm trying to create consistency in the projects I've been working on. If I change everything to or , then at some point they will all be reverted back as they get updated.

Either way, how would I do a Find and Replace to overwrite the code that is currently in there while not ignoring font-style:? Because italics and bold are not the only styles in the project.

Report · Mar 31, 2017

That depends on how good you are with RegEx statements.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · Apr 04, 2017

Is no one able to help me out? I've briefly tried studying RegEx, but I'm finding it difficult to come up with the search I need for this particular case.

Report · Apr 12, 2017

Hi,

Thanks for reporting the issue.

Using regular expressions should be able to do the operation.