Couldn't you just use variables? You can include character formats as part of the variable definition. You could keep a Frame file with all the variables and import them into documents as required. Laurie
<lurker but glad to hear Rick's surgery was a success - I was surprised to receive a personal phone call from him in response to a question I had posted several years ago, was always impressed by that> At 14:13 -0600 25/6/12, Carol J. Elkins wrote: >Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. > If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be an external master list of the words to be italicized. >Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than type a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does what I need.
