Need help with Search & Replace wildcards

[Ivaylo]

Hi all,

I have a very long Word document which I have to reformat
in certain way. Some of the changes include:

(1) applying <I> </I> tags to all italics phrases (not
just words), (something like this: sample phrase
(formated in italics) --> <I>sample phrase</I>);
(2) applying a <a href="bword://word>word1</a> tag to
some words I want to specify.
(3) applying a <font color="blue">word</font> to some
words I want to specify.

What bothers me is that I don't know which search and
replace strings I have to use since I'm not very familiar
with wildcards. What is important is that the search must
affect whole phrases with such formatting criteria not
just single words.

Can you help me with search & replace strings or a macro?

Thanks a lot

 

[Graham Mayor]

These are not wildcard searches

(1) Press CTRL+I (Italic) with the cursor in the search box and replace with
<I>^&<\I>
(2) Put the word in the search box and replace with <a
href="bword://word>^&</a>
(3) Put the word in the search box and replace with <font
color="blue">^&</font> - if you want the text to appear blue in the document
then in addition add format > font > blue to the replace string

For background on wildcard searches - see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

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[Ivaylo]

Thank you very much, Graham,

It solved my problems perfectly.

Ivaylo