Changing _format_ to underline

Hi, all;

I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used
_this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But I
don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this.

Thanks;

Amy

Suzanne
Wed May 07 15:14:39 PDT 2008

AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

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"Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, all;
>
> I have a document that sometimes needs to be seen as ASCII, so I've used
> _this_ to indicate underline. For the final I'll want to change that. But
> I don't know how to tell find and replace how to do this.
>
> Thanks;
>
> Amy
>

Amy
Wed May 07 19:37:22 PDT 2008


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.

Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today.

Hope that clarifies.

Thanks;

Amy

Suzanne
Wed May 07 22:10:53 PDT 2008

I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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"Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:u7pTgDJsIHA.2068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.
>
> Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
> replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing
> today.
>
> Hope that clarifies.
>
> Thanks;
>
> Amy
>
>

Steve
Wed May 07 22:27:58 PDT 2008

On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:37:22 -0500, "Amy Blankenship"
<Amy_nospam@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote:

>
>"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
>news:u7pTgDJsIHA.2068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.
>
>Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
>replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing today.

Autoformat is not the same as Autoreplace.


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Amy
Thu May 08 09:41:46 PDT 2008

Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

:-)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
>You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
>AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
>Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>
> "Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote in message
> news:OT5c2RLsIHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:u7pTgDJsIHA.2068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.
>>
>> Yes, but the underscores are already in there, intentionally. I want to
>> replace ones that were written, say, last week, not ones I am typing
>> today.
>>
>> Hope that clarifies.
>>
>> Thanks;
>>
>> Amy
>>
>>
>
>

JeanGuyMarcil
Thu May 08 11:17:01 PDT 2008

"Amy Blankenship" wrote:

> Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!
>
> :-)
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OGXWrqMsIHA.3680@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do this.
> >You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
> >AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
> >Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.

On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type options)
is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it will
italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text.

Am I missing somehting?

Suzanne
Thu May 08 14:43:47 PDT 2008

Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jean-Guy Marcil" <JeanGuyMarcil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "Amy Blankenship" wrote:
>
>> Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!
>>
>> :-)
>> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:OGXWrqMsIHA.3680@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> >I repeat, AutoFormat (as opposed to AutoFormat As You Type) will do
>> >this.
>> >You have to explicitly run AutoFormat. You can do this with Format |
>> >AutoFormat | AutoFormat Now, or you can add an AutoFormat button to the
>> >Formatting toolbar if you need to use it frequently.
>
> On my machine with Word 2003, _text_ (in the Autoformat as you type
> options)
> is used to indicate italic, not underlining. So, if I run Autoformat, it
> will
> italicized the text surrounded by _'s, not underline such text.
>
> Am I missing somehting?
>
>

Amy
Fri May 09 12:26:48 PDT 2008


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
> underline, I suppose.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA

Thanks, all.

BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport :-)

Suzanne
Fri May 09 14:26:30 PDT 2008

Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW,
you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@magnoliamultimedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:e$9npTVsIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
>> underline, I suppose.
>>
>> --
>> Suzanne S. Barnhill
>> Microsoft MVP (Word)
>> Words into Type
>> Fairhope, Alabama USA
>
> Thanks, all.
>
> BTW, I'm just a few minutes from you, north of Gulfport :-)
>

Steve
Fri May 09 22:41:29 PDT 2008

On Fri, 9 May 2008 16:26:30 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org>
wrote:

>Well, maybe more than "a few minutes," but definitely a "neighbor." FWIW,
>you might want to leave the italics; underlines are so yesterday.

Underlines are a hangover from old mechanical typewriters, which couldn't do
italics, and were an indication to the typesetter to set in italics.

Underlines should never be used with a proportional font, except to indicate
inserted text in redlining (or whatever Microsoft want to call it now).


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