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Subject:Re: System for cleaning up legacy Word docs? From:"M Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:57:11 -0000
"Stevenson, Rebecca" <Rebecca -dot- Stevenson -at- workscape -dot- com> wrote in message news:260327 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>were created by people who have never heard of styles, and
>working with them is somewhat painful.
I've done this more than once. Suggest you get to know the Find/Replace
feature.
If they've been even slightly consistent in the way they've applied adhoc
formatting, use Find/Replace to apply your new styles, e.g. search for all
Underlined passages and turn them into Heading 1.
(I'd suggest going further and using VBA, but you say you don't use Word
often.)
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