Avraham Makeler wrote:
> I need a simple Find-Replace operation, which I thought I asked about once > before ... but not quite. > > I now need to look for all instances of the company's name, e.g., Acme, and > apply a character style to it. I strongly suggest that instead, you replace all instances of Acme with a variable, e.g., CompanyName, whose definition includes both the char format and the text. The EZVars plug-in from electropubs.com makes replacing text with a variable (and other variable-related tasks) ... um ... EZ. > And if I am already asking, how would I apply italics to the text, instead > of applying a character style? Don't. If you need to do this to all instances of Acme, why would you want to use ad hoc formatting, creating countless overrides? > I have looked at a number of articles about doing Find-Replace with tags > but > they all seem to discuss how to change one tag to another, or how to change > local formatting to a tag, and not how to look for text and apply to it a > tag or formatting. Use Copy Special to copy the char tag to the clipboard and then change by pasting. > I saw somebody recommended Rick Quattro's Find-Replace plug-in. I couldn't > find it. Does anybody have a link to this? frameexpert.com Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
