I haven't even tried doing macro 2 yet, since I can't get macro 1 to work. Maybe the recorder can't follow when I click on some of the Advanced Find and Replace Format menus? But then when I try to run the macro I recorded when I did it manually, nothing happens. However, for macro 1, I can't get the macro to work. Basically it's inserting the placeholder tags "III" immediately before and after all italicized text.įor macro 2, I want to re-italicize the text and delete the placeholder "III" tags. If I can get these macros to work, I'll modify for bold and underline formats also. The particular macros I'm working on are for italics. I'm trying to expedite their directions for what they term their "nuclear option.") The goal is to have as "clean" a Word document as possible for upload to a third-party website. Select some text in your document that represents the formatting you want to change. My purpose is to strip my Word document of all formatting, paste it into a text-only text editor, then copy that text and re-paste back into a new Word document. The feature works in Word 2016 and earlier. I've tried to research answers to my problem elsewhere, but no luck. Entered the characters to find and the characters to replace, adding any formatting desired and selected Replace All (the process took less than 2 seconds) Selected Edit-Select-Select All in the Word file, then held the shift key and pressed the left arrow (I think not doing this would add a row to the next.
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