How to add a conditional font format using Replace in Microsoft Word
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Loading... - Banyu Saputra
- 25 Oct 2022
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Microsoft Word’s Replace feature is more powerful than you might know. This feature is so flexible that it’s difficult to know everything it can do. Besides replacing content with new content, you can apply formats, styles, specify special characters, wildcards and much more.
When faced with a complex update, you might not turn to Replace first, but you should. For instance, what would you do if you needed to italicize a specific set of characters — whether it occurs at the beginning, the end, in the middle of a string or by itself, but only when the string is uppercase? You might be surprised that Word’s Replace feature can handle each of those requirements.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add italics to each occurrence of the string ATM, regardless of where it occurs, but only when it’s uppercase — that’s the condition. Word for the web can’t apply formats, but you can search for the uppercase string and apply the formatting manually. It’s more work and isn’t a great choice in a long document with many occurrences of the search string.
I’m using Microsoft 365 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use earlier versions of Word. You can download the Microsoft Word demo file for this tutorial. Read More...
