Topic: Searching for Formatting

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Adding Tags to Text Using Word to change text into HTML tags. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Automatically Formatting Text within Quotes If you want to do formatting changes to quoted text within a document, figuring out exactly how to do it can be challenging. This tip discusses a couple of ideas you can use. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing the Formatting of All Instances of a Word Key words in a document may be more effective if they are formatted to stand out from the surrounding text. This tip discusses two different ways you can make sure that all instances of a key word really do stand out from the crowd. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Finding Formatted Bulleted Paragraphs You can use the Bullets tool on the Formatting toolbar to turn paragraphs into a bulleted list. If you want to later search for those bulleted lists, you may be out of luck—Word doesn’t provide an inherent way to perform such a search. The macro in this tip can help you find the lists, however. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Protecting Hidden Text How to stop others from seeing your hidden text. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Replacing Hidden Text Word allows you to apply many attributes to text, such as bold, italic, superscript, and subscript. Another possible attribute is to mark the text as hidden. If you want to remove the hidden attribute from lots of text, here’s how to use Find and Replace to do it. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Borders The Find and Replace feature in Word allows you to easily search for lots of different items or characteristics in your document. One of the things you cannot natively do, however, is to search for borders on paragraphs. This tip introduces two macros that make short work of finding any bordered paragraphs in your documents. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Character Formatting Word doesn’t limit you to searching only for text. You can also, among other things, search for text formatted in a specific manner. This tip explains how you can easily perform such a search. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Formatting Using the Find and Replace feature of Word, you can search for different formats applied to text in your document. This tip describes how to use the three ways of searching for formatting: fonts, paragraphs, and styles. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Searching for Periods Not Followed by a Space Most periods should be followed by at least one space. What if you think there may be some errors in how your post-period spacing appears? You can use the search techniques presented in this tip to locate the problem areas. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Searching for Text With a Certain Format The Find and Replace tool in Word is very powerful. You can use it to search not only for text but for the formatting that may be applied to text. This tip explains how you can search for just the formatting you need. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Selective Formatting using Find and Replace The Find and Replace tool in Word allows you to check for formatting in what you search for and use formatting in your replacement text. What it doesn’t do is allow you to be selective on which characters of your replacement text have formatting applied. There is a way around this using two passes through Find and Replace, as described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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