Pete Holsberg wrote: > I used regular expressions and a dot as the search character. I had to > specify type face and bold for each of the characters to be found. I > also specified the color. > > I would have liked it if I onky had to specify "." and the color. > Then I used & as the replacement character and specified the color of > the replacement. > > It found the search "string" but only removed the color and the font, > reseting them to black and Times New Roman, respectively. >
I think I am missing something. Do you want to change the color of specific words to a new color?, or just remove all exotic colors and set all text to common black? If you use ".*" as search pattern with regular expressions you will select any, _all_ text in the document. To find text disregarding formatting (bold, italics etc) just place the cursor in the "find" box and ensure you press the "No format" button. Then text search pattern will be found whatever formatting it have. If a format is included in the search, you will see an indication below the "find" box. If you want to change the color of the word "hello" across all document simply go to Search&Replace, disable regular expressions, enter "hello" (without "") in the find box, ensure "NO format" button is greyed (has been pressed). Go to "Replace" box, enter "&" (without ""). Press de "format" button and select the font color. *Important*: do not specify any other property. Do not select an specific font name, size, weight, just change the attribute you want to apply (in other words, all selected attributes will be applied, overwriting the existing ones) Then press "Replace all" and the work will be done. Enrique -- Enrique Castro Dpto. de Bioquímica ULPGC --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
