Complicated Microsoft word question it might be impossible

Thomas_Holding

In a word document there is some text between non English characters, for reasons which are too long to explain I would like to change text like this

Æ Example Text. Ö

to

Example Text

Now I can use remove to remove the "Æ"  and "Ö" letters but changing the text between them to italics is sadly too difficult for me.

Any ideas?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

can you not just highlight the text and then hit the italic icon?

Thomas_Holding

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

can you not just highlight the text and then hit the italic icon?

Yes I can but there is a lot of this - I would spend forever doing so.

Thomas_Holding

frugalmacdugal said:

Hi,

can you not just highlight the text and then hit the italic icon?

Apologies for not being clearer.

Richard1212

The following is what I use when necessary

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-to-add-language-accent-marks-in-word-and-outlook-3801b103-6a8d-42a5-b8ba-fdc3774cfc76

On-the-coast

is the text always in the form of
Æ Example Text. Ö ?
if that’s the case I would do a global format change to italics for the text in that form (pattern)
and then I would run a global search / replace with nul for those two characters…

Alderbank

I assume the non-English characters only occur in these special locations? If so,do a wildcard Find and Replace. 

Your “Find What” text needs to be:

(Æ)(*)(Ö)

That gives you three separate blocks of text which in Word shorthand are \1, \2 and \3. You just want the middle block so your Replace with text needs to be:

\2

And in the “Replace with:” box, select Format + Font + Italic

This works for me. Let us know if it works for you!

twopenny

You do have to read through carefully if you use Find and replace.....It can replace odd bits that it sees as what you ask but isn't.
Though it's always going to be extra work if you are altering through a lot of text.

Thomas_Holding

Alderbank said:

I assume the non-English characters only occur in these special locations? If so,do a wildcard Find and Replace. 

Your “Find What” text needs to be:

(Æ)(*)(Ö)

That gives you three separate blocks of text which in Word shorthand are \1, \2 and \3. You just want the middle block so your Replace with text needs to be:

\2

And in the “Replace with:” box, select Format + Font + Italic

This works for me. Let us know if it works for you!

That worked thank you so much.

Thomas_Holding

I have another question is it possible to use find and replace to change
John said "I love you.” “Thanks"  
to
John said "I love you.”
“Thanks"  .”

But where there is an indent on the first line of every new paragraph?

I can do the end of line but not the indent.

Thomas_Holding

I have answered my own question!!

In find and replace 

for find use

.""

And replace

.”^l^t“