keropsanfrancisco.blogg.se - Find and replace formatting in word 2013

Replace: \1 (for this one, set the Replace to NOT use italics using Format > Font > Regular).

Find: () (this time, set the Find to italics using Format > Font > Italic).

If don’t want the punctuation in italics, then you’ll need to run another find/replace using wildcards to change the punctuation back to normal text:

The end result will be an italicised word with its trailling punctuation also in italics. Again, don’t forget to set the Replace to italic font.

If you don’t want to keep the punctuation, then just leave it as \2. If you want to keep the punctuation, then you need to add \3 to the Replace. For straight double quotes, you’d change it to: Use the relevant Find from any of the above, depending on the style of quote marks you’re looking for, and add an extra command () to find the comma or period too. Case 5: Period or comma inside the closing quote mark Don’t forget to copy an opening one for the left part of the Find string, and a closing quote for the right part. NOTE: It’s easier to copy a curly quote from the main Word document and paste it into the Find. Note: This may not work-if it doesn’t, try (‘)(*)(‘) as the Find, but be careful when replacing as a single quote mark is also used as an apostrophe. Case 4: Single curly quotesįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, an opening single straight quote mark is ^0145, and a closing single straight quote mark is ^0146. Case 3: Double curly quotesįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, an opening double curly quote mark is ^0147 and a closing one is ^0148. Case 2: Single straight quotesįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, a single straight quote mark is ^039.

all the double and single straight quotes here DO NOT display correctly, so DO NOT copy/paste from here-instead, type the quote marks in directly from your keyboardįor those preferring to use ACSII codes, a double straight quote mark is ^034.

for the italics, when you’re in the Replace field, select Format > Font> and choose Italic.

you must have Use wildcards checked in the advanced Find and Replace dialog box.

It also won’t catch more than one word inside the quote marks, and I don’t have an easy solution for that. period, comma) at the end, such as “term.” I’ve added alternatives to deal with these situations. This was a relatively easy task using wildcards in Word’s find and replace, but there are a couple of ‘gotchas’-it won’t catch anything in curly (smart) quotes or inside single quote marks (straight or curly), or if there’s US-style punctuation (e.g. For example, I wanted “term” to become term. I wanted to remove the quote marks and italicise the term. All special terms in a Word document I worked on were surrounded by straight double quote marks.