powerfind and styles

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 2004-10-06 07:07:40

In the old NisusWriter I used to be able to find and replace formatted text. You could format text in the find box, and then only text with the same format was found. I often used that option when writing HTML, to insert e.g. bold and italic tags. NisusWriter Express apparently isn't that clever (yet?). Any suggestions for a workaround?

thanks and all the best
Bart

Post by **charles** » 2004-10-06 07:33:17

Hi Bart:

One thing you can do is select some text in your document with the style you want to work on and then look at the bottom of your window where you will see several small icons called "tags". Any tags to the left of the flag menu represent attributes on the text such as paragraph or character styles, a ruler or font. Click on any of these and a menu will appear with things you can do with that attribute. On option is "Select All", which will select all ranges of text in your document with the same formatting. Then you can apply whenever changes you want to that text.

-Charles

Bart · Post by **Bart** » 2004-10-06 11:24:03

Dear Charles,

I had to do some experimenting first, but it does work indeed!

I selected a bit of bold text, choose 'select all' from the underlined 'a' at the bottom, and then did a "replace '(any text)Found' with '<B>found1</B>'" with "where" set to "in selection" (that is the essential bit!). And lo and behold, any bold text string was neatly tagged.

thank you for your excellent advise
Bart

Talisman39 · Post by **Talisman39** » 2004-10-07 14:43:50

I hadn't realized that's what the little icons were at the bottom (since I hadn't read the help section that carefully

. Those work great! Much easier than the old powerfind method of doing it.

Nice!

Adam