Find/Replace italics with character style?

Question

I have a lot of bibliography entries which are in a paragraph style using Palatino but with an italics character style applied to the book title. I have brought them into a different file where I am using Libre Caslon Text. Applying the new paragraph style does not alter the character style of the title as per attached image. Is it possible to search text with some form of Find/Replace to find Palatino and replace with Libre Caslon rather than manually selecting each book title and applying Libre Caslon character style?

jane-e · Accepted Answer

Quiry wroteApplying the new paragraph style does not alter the character style of the title as per attached image. Okay, got it with your formatting, thank you!!Open your Character Styles panel. Right-click the Character style in use for the book titles and edit it. If you click in the text first, it will highlight the style in the panel. When you edit the style, everything using the style updates. In this case, all of your book titles. Turn Preview on (lower left) to see what you are doing. Note: The next time you next to change the Paragraph style, do it in a similar way. Edit the existing style instead of applying a new style.Is this working for you?

jane-e · Answer

Most people would assume by looking that this was three paragraphs, which we are now discovering it is not (so we are guessing.) It would be helpful if you would:

annotate which paragraph styles are used and which text they are applied to
annotate which character styles are used and which text they are applied to
show a screen shot with hidden characters showing so we can see where you pressed Return

Yes, you can do Find/Change. But you can also redefine the paragraph and character styles, and doing so is a best practice. Find/Change will create overrides to your styles.

Please confirm that the when you turn on "Style Override Highlighter" that nothing turns blue and that you have no overrides so that when you redefine styles, it will work. Any Overrides need to be removed first.

If you need help with removing overrides or redefining styles, please ask again.

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