Find Character Formatting

Taman · Post by **Taman** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:49 pm

I think this should be easey, but can't quite figure it out from the manual. I seem to have a few parts of my document that are in non-standard formatted text. In that when I click on the character drop-down menu, I have a number of fonts listed there with a diamond to the left. I'd like to find these so I can reformat them. Can someone please explain how I can do this!

Thanks!

donb · Post by **donb** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:26 am

In the File Menu choose Replace Styles. In the Character Style part, for each of the fonts that has a diamond in front of its name click on Replace With and choose the standard font you prefer.

Don Broadribb

Timotheus · Post by **Timotheus** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:37 am

But it's not always easy to figure out which parts of a document correspond to which character / paragraph style. Therefore an option "show / highlight parts in selected style" perhaps would be welcomed by many.

macsailor · Post by **macsailor** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:20 am

Timotheus wrote:But it's not always easy to figure out which parts of a document correspond to which character / paragraph style. Therefore an option "show / highlight parts in selected style" perhaps would be welcomed by many.

Agree.

Taman · Post by **Taman** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:46 am

Hi Donb - thanks for this. Now I can replace it, but part of the problem is that I don't know where in the document this non-standard text is. Therefore, I have to (well this is what I did) create a style that really stands out, change the non-standard text to this style, then go page-downing through the document until I see it's location, then change it to the style I'm after.

Would be better if I could just search for the non-standard style in the first place. Then when I found where it was I'd know what to change it to.

Thanks for the help, Taman

donb · Post by **donb** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:04 am

Right. Well, the thing to do is to this:
(I recommend you do the following with a duplicate of your document, so that if you mess it up, you can always get back to your original):

1. Go into Find&Replace, select "Any character" from the "Insert Element" set. This places its icon in the Find area.

2. Double click on the "Any character" icon, and select "Once or More" from the choices given, and be sure to click on "Greedy".

3. In the Font palette choose the font you are trying to find instances of.

4. In the Replace All section type something like qqq followed by "Found expression" from Insert Element.

5. Click on Replace All.

6. Type qqq in the Find area.

7. Close the Find&Replace window.

Press command-g.
This will take you to the first place the font you are looking for occurs. Following that text, to find the next instance, press command-g again, and continue doing so until you have found all the instances in your document.

Don Broadribb