Adding space before every italics word 1

[acevans]

Does anyone know of a macro/find feature that will allow me to find every italics word and add a space in front of it without going page by page?

 

[macropod]

Hi acevans,

You could use a wildcard Find/Replace, with:
Find = '(<*>)'
Replace = ' \1'
(without the single quotes) and, for the 'Find' expression, choosing Format|Font|Italic.


Cheers
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[acevans]

I've tried that. but I get a response from word saying

"the replace with text contains a group number which is out of range"

What I have are novels that have been scanned by a third party to convert to e-books and everywhere there are italics words, the space is missing before it so its smooshed together with the word before it.

 

[macropod]

Hi acevans,

The Find/Replace works fine for me. Did you remove the single quotes?

However, you seem to have a more fundamental problem - if the space really has been deleted, what you're looking for is not a series of words, but merely a series of italic characters - there are no 'words' for the Find/Replace to Find. For example, if you've got:

The quickbrownfox jumps over the lazy dog.

the 'quickbrownfox' is all one word. In this case, changing the Find expression to '(*>)' will insert a space thus:

The quick brownfox jumps over the lazy dog.

You'll still have to insert your own space into 'brown fox', though.


Cheers
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[acevans]

I'll try that, thanks!

 

[acevans]

That did it!! Perfect!