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> But still can't figure out what I would change to get this to substitute italic for underline throughout a document.ĭid you download the Word 2004 Reference and look at the sample script Scripting may be for geeks, but it ain't for sissies. Also, it won't compile in Script Editor as is, even after I remove line breaks, etc. and I wouldn't know where to start, alas. I've looked at the script toward which you pointed me. And in some of these documents the underlining also appears in the headers and notes, so I'd want to have it work on all ranges. Obviously best to script this, rather than go through all those steps for each affected document. However, I don't (yet) know Applescript - just a newbie at that. I then tested it on one of the older documents I need to massage, and it worked fine there too. Place cursor in Replace field, click Format>Font, choose Italic and Underline>None, click Okay. Place cursor in Find field, click Format>Font, choose straight line underline, click Okay.ģ. Thanks to both of you, CyberTaz and Daiya.įYI, my test file has been a new one in which I underlined a few words. Want to replace the font, itself, with a different font. Only want to replace TNR with Arial forĮxample, but leave any instances of Garamond untouched or if you You only need specify a font if you've used more than one font in the doc & Then Format> Font, select Italic from the Font Style list, select None from Phrase doesn't appear *on* the list button when you select it, select it aĢ- Click in the Replace With field. There seems to be a bit of a bug when you select Words Only, so if that Only) from the Underline Style list but make no other changes, OK. Then click Format> Font, select the type of underlining (single or Words Try it this way [based on your earlier post of wanting to replace singleġ- When you go to F&R you're already in the Find What field so empty it ofĪny content & just click the No Formatting button to get a 'clean' start. (even though the name may be the same) and/or that the underlining may beĬoded somewhat differently than you think. Well, in addition to a slight modification to your procedure I suspect thereĬould be either or both of 2 other factors involved: Since these areĮvidently 'older' docs it's possible that the font may be a little different The edification of all, if you do decide you need a script. Making a FindĪnd Replace run on all ranges is discussed here.įree feel to post results/sample scripts back to the archives here for Headers/footers or footnotes/endnotes, text boxes, etc. Script only works on the main range of the document. *HOWEVER*, Word documents, internally, are divided into ranges. On page 156 under 'Class: Replacement' which can be tweaked to add newįormatting, not just clear found formatting. The Word 2004 AppleScript Reference from here. You know AppleScript, right? I don't, I'm just experimenting.

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Let you act on all open documents, no clue how to script that. Had already written this, so I'm posting it. Running the same script over and over again (and then some more), but I It only lets you act on text, not formatting (automator actions notĬyberTaz is right that this is only worth messing with if you need to be Just by the way/for the archives, there is a built-inĪutomator action to save and repeat a Find and Replace in Word 2008, but They go back to the day when I used that to indicate italics to proofreaders, when I submitted printouts as hard copy, before editors accepted digital files.įun question. So 'Select the formatting you want to Find, select the formatting you want to Replace it with & let it rip' doesn't exactly do the trick. I tried substituting Cmd+U and Cmd+I, and also underline and italic, in that field, with no result.

Tried Find Next, Replace, and Replace All with no result. Got a message underneath that field indicating my choice. Selected the font of my document and Italic only. Clicked on No Formatting (bottom left) to gray that out.ħ. Selected the font of my document and Underline>Words only. Clicked on Format>Font right next to it.Ĥ. Clicked on No Formatting (bottom left) to gray that out.Ģ. I followed your instructions, expanded the F&R screen. However, I can't actually seem to achieve this. Good to know that I can do this via F&R without a script.