put bracketed text in italics 1

[dasmotiu]

I have some text (actually a lot of text, about 300 pages) which has been "dumbed down" to flat ASCII and anything that was in italics has been surrounded by [brackets].

I have imported this text into Word, and since I am not a VBA expert, I'd like to write a simple VBA macro to remove the brackets and put the text back into italics. I have not mastered the concept of extending the selection to an arbitrary point. btw ... I understand the potential mess if there happen to be cases where the brackets are unbalanced, and do not need it to handle this case.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[macropod]

Hi dasmotui,

You don't need a macro! You can do this with a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = \[([!\]]{1,})\]
Replace = \1
and you format the 'Replace' font as italic. When you open the Find/Replace dialogue box, click on the 'More' button to access the wildcard and formatting options.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[dasmotiu]

Thank you, I changed about 500 instances of that in about 2 seconds. I am extremely glad to have joined this board.

 

[macropod]

Hi dasmotiu,

You're welcome!

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]