With MS Word, find strings with no character style attached.
Using MS Word, I want to find certain unique strings with no attached character style. For example, a given text may have the name “Claude” in several places. My goal is to mark most (but not all) of those occurrences with a certain character style I have defined, for example a style called “Person.”
How can I use the Find command to search for any occurrence of that name, “Claude” without any style attached to the string? Once I find such an occurrence, I can then decide whether to add the style.
I tried searching for “Claude” specifying the machine should search for a whole word only and respect capitalization. That did not work, for the computer highlighted “Claude” with the “Person” style attached.
I think this is an easy problem, but it is way above my pay scale.
Thanks!
John Robin (Allen), Priddis.
How can I use the Find command to search for any occurrence of that name, “Claude” without any style attached to the string? Once I find such an occurrence, I can then decide whether to add the style.
I tried searching for “Claude” specifying the machine should search for a whole word only and respect capitalization. That did not work, for the computer highlighted “Claude” with the “Person” style attached.
I think this is an easy problem, but it is way above my pay scale.
Thanks!
John Robin (Allen), Priddis.
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M. Sauvé's comment does not answer my question: with Word, how do I search for a string that has no character style attached, while skipping strings that have a style attached?
More importantly, without answering my question, he solves my problem. The kludge works, so I'm giving him full credit for the question.
Many thanks!
More importantly, without answering my question, he solves my problem. The kludge works, so I'm giving him full credit for the question.
Many thanks!
ASKER
I commented on this in another message posted with the question and solution
my understanding of what you want to accomplish is:
How can I use the Find command to search for any occurrence of that name, “Claude” without any style attached to the string? Once I find such an occurrence, I can then decide whether to add the style
i believe my solution solves this
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J.R. in Priddis