2008/8/6 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 17:53 06/08/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: >> >> In another copy use Regular Expressions to change each type of mistake to, >> for example "itself followed by !!!!" So change bad double spaces to " >> !!!!", doubled apostrophes to ''!!!! and so on. Then he can highlight all >> the occurrences of !!!! >> >> I can't find a way to change text to, say, red background or blue font or >> bold & italic. That would be nice ... > > Once you have made any such changes, go back and find them all again using > Find & Replace (with a different search, of course) and Find All; this > selects all the text you want to affect. You can now easily change font, > font effects, highlighting, and so on. It takes only one operation to > change any number of occurrences as long as you use Find All. > > The only oddity appears to be background colour, where you must use Format | > Character... | Background instead of the Background Color button in the > Formatting toolbar, since that changes the paragraph rather than character > property - so it affects the whole paragraph(s) rather than just the > selection. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker >
Actually, your original suggestion what just what I needed and I already sent to him the document. Thanks, Brian! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
