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I'm editing (in Ms Word, Win2k OS) a technical manual for a software company
in Korea... The doc was originally written in Korea, and I'm editing here in
the states. I'm using the tools/track changes/highlight changes function.
Right now, I'm trying to replace a Normal paragraph style w/ character font
style that I've created (I call it "icon") and wanted this to be used for
every instance of a word, (hypothetical name here) called, "xabc." I
created a shortcut key for it, as well.
I'm having no problem when I replace the word w/ the character style one at
a time. (It doesn't show via a "track change") But when I tried to change
them all through "find/replace"... I did the "find" to be "xabc" in Normal
style, and "replace" with "xabc" in the icon character style. When I hit
the "replace all" button, I saw every (all 151 of them, of course) instance
was changed... the deleted version was the icon style, and the replaced
version is the Normal style. I undid it, checked to be SURE I'm using the
proper ones, all correct, as far as I can tell, but for some very odd
reason, it won't work..... I'm wondering if there's something I need to do
to the "track changes" function.... ????
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