On 15/12/2008 20:28, Mitchel Cohen wrote:
Hi,
In an essay I wrote, I have all phrases I want to appear as italics
between two codes. For example, <MI>words to appear in italic<D> . The
words to be italicized are different throughout the essay.
How do I do a Search and Replace for different strings of words, but
all of them between <MI> and <D> ?
Thanx.
Mitchel
In Find & Replace:
* click More Options
* tick (check) Regular Expressions
* In the Find box enter "<MI>.*<D>" without the quotes. That middle bit
is period asterisk and means "any number of any character"
* click Find All
All the occurrences of text beginning with <M1> and ending with <D> will
be highlighted.
* click the Italic button on the toolbar
Done.
Note that this will *not* find text that starts with <M1> and ends with
<D> *on a subsequent line*. If any of the text to be italicised spans
lines then, sorry, I don't know how to do that. Not even sure you can.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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