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Subject:RE: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project? From:Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com> To:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sun, 9 Dec 2007 10:50:55 -0500 (EST)
Dan is right. And this is one feature of Word that outshines even what mighty FM offers.
YJ
Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> a écrit :
Search and Replace of styles in Word is *very* basic, not at all
advanced. Just click the More button in the SNR dialog box. Format,
Style, etc. -- they've had it since Fred Flintstone was using Word, and
they still have it now.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claire Conant
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:40 PM
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l List
> Subject: RE: MS Word screws up yet ANOTHER project?
>
> If I recall correctly - and it's been a while since I've
> tried - I think you can do a search and replace of
> styles. It's an advanced setting, but if you navigate
> around you can find it. Maybe newer versions of Word
> don't have it. Not sure.
>
> > Is there a way, if you've already got docs with
> > everything based on Normal, to swap for some other
> > home-baked style? I've been avoiding it because there's
> > really never a good time to run a 300-page document
> > through a plain text editor and then bring it into
> > Word for from-scratch application of all formatting.
> >
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