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Tis one of the macros I am looking at myself at the moment. Tis devilishly
hard. My latest method will be something like:
for each para in doc
set ranges to each character style instance
remove all formatting.
manually add all styled formatting.
select char style ranges and manually apply their formatting
yech. A 2nd way I am tossing up on is to pre-scan the document for character
style defs, then search for all instances and create a flatfile db of all
styled phrases and their style, then zap the entire document to only para
styling before reading back the flatfile and styling up.
The second way then also lets you put new style phrases into the document
automagically by identifying just one instance :-).
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Kirkham
Is there a systematic way in Word to find paragraphs whose formatting has
been manually changed from the style definition? I've been assigned to find
all such paragraphs in a large project that has been worked on by a long
series of tech writers.
I know that normally you can remove manual formatting from a paragraph by
pressing Ctrl-Q, but these are files created in RoboHelp and RoboHelp takes
over Ctrl-Q for one of its macros.
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