Changing _format_ to underline

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Amy Blankenship

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 S. Barnhill said:
AutoFormat will do it if you have the appropriate option enabled.
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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
 
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.
 
Amy Blankenship said:
Oh, ok. I had never come across that feature before. Cool!

:-)
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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?
 
Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.
 
Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Ooh, you're right. But you could then search and replace italic with
underline, I suppose.

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

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