19 Comments

  1. John Chapman

    Hi Lori

    Good stuff but I am trying to format my wife’s books done in word 2003 on my mac which runs Word for Mac 2011. Have you tried this in this version?

    Can’t see how this can be done with the dastardly new find facility the geeks at microsoft have handed down to us.

    Cheers

    John

  2. Matt

    Trying to do this in Word 2010, don’t see a Body style sheet (and can’t find info on it with a Google search). I can bring up styles and, once I’ve set it to show all styles, I can see Body Text, but if I click on it, it applies that style to the body. Or is that the point? I’m supposed to apply the Body text style to the text???

  3. I’m glad you found a way that works for you. I didn’t read the article you linked to, but I will warn you that in the past when I didn’t set up a style for italics and just used the italics font type, once the book was converted into an actual epub or mobi file all the words in italics looked funky – like a smaller font than everything else.

    It doesn’t matter what you call your italics style “body italics” is just what I like to use, but I do think it is important that you use an actual style and not just the font type icon button.

    Best of luck!!

    Lori

  4. Barney

    This is some POWERFUL Black Magic! It worked! This is going to save me a lot of time! Thanks Lori!

  5. Hooolllly wow. This information is going to save me hours!! Do you know how much of a pain it is to try and re-italicize parts of a manuscript that’s over 250k words long?? Thank you!

  6. I wish I’d seen this before doing the nuclear option and single-handedly changing everything back to italics in my 400+ pgs word manuscript 🙁
    Ahhh you’re a life saver! Thank you!!
    I will share this on my social media, there’s a lot of writers out there with the same issues 🙂

    Thx,
    Alexa
    Author of Avalon Dreams
    http://www.alexawhitewolf.com

  7. Meagan

    I have a question after entering the QQQ… do you hit “replace all” or leave the window open?

  8. David Kinsella

    Great tip. I have this article saved and I come back to it often! I suppose with a little adjustment this trick could be done for all kinds of formatting someone might want to translate (in the older moving from one place to another meaning) into another document.

  9. Just figured something out that will make this tip even better. Once you have the dialogue box open just press CTRL+SHIFT at the same time and press I and it will select italics for you.

    I did this by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+H by mistake to open the Find and Replace box instead of just pressing CTRL+H. It showed the format “hidden” and I knew it should work with I for italics and B for bold and so on.

  10. David Kinsella

    This page was moved and does not redirect here. I had it saved and it just shows an error page. I assumed you had deleted the website until I did a Google search.

    In relation to my previous comment what I meant was in relation to your instructions above: “1.) In Find Window: Leave box blank but go to More–>Format–>Font–>Font Style. Click ITALIC. Hit OK” All you really need to do it place your cursor in the find box and hit Ctrl+I.

    Since this page was moved an error has also crept in. You need to put \ before the 2 in the replace box, otherwise it will not work. It will look like this \2

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