On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:54:22 -0700 Scott Meyers wrote: > Naomi Kramer wrote: > > Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the > > xml behind a document, open the styles information and modify > > (insert screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet > > is to delete the character style and recreate it, taking extreme > > care to NOT accidentally set any unwanted characteristics. Yup, > > definitely an area that needs work. > > Thanks for the information, I didn't know about the "hack the XML > option." > > Regarding deleting character styles, the problem with this approach is > that once the style is deleted, any text to which that style was > applied reverts to the default. Combined with the fact that there > seems to be no way to search for character styles, it means that, as > far as I can tell, there is no automatic way to find all uses of a > character style and replace it with a different character style. My > sense is that the best you can do if you want to modify character > style X that's been applied is: > > 1. Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X. > 2. Manually go through your document looking for places where > characters > have had style X applied. Change the text to the default, then apply > style Y. > 3. Delete style X and hope you didn't miss anything in step 2. > > Am I overlooking a better approach?
You could modify style X to Red in 1a. This would allow finding it easier. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
