If you only want to replace styles in specific topics select those topics in the Project Explorer first, using Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click. Select the topic containing the example of the style you want to replace last, so that you can select the style example in the next step.

Click inside some text formatted with the style you want to replace, then select Styles > Replace Styles in the Write tab. Then select the Font Styles mode at the top of the dialog that appears.

All the formatting attributes of the current style are displayed in the left column and the style name is displayed at the top of the left column. Don't change any of the left-column font attribute settings – the attributes must all match exactly for an exact search.

Select the new style you want to apply from the drop-down list directly below the Change to Format/Style: heading on the right. If you need to create the style first, select Edit Styles.

Leave the option Remove inline formatting activated. This will only replace inline formatting matching the settings in the left column, so any manually-formatted text with different attributes will be protected. When you are performing an exact search this option is effectively inactive.

A dialog will be displayed allowing you to choose where you want to replace: In the entire project, the main topics, the invisible topics or selected topics only. You can also perform a test run to check how many styles would be found and replaced before actually applying the changes.

Note that any changes in the current topic will only be visible in the editor after you close the Replace Styles dialog.

If you only want to replace styles in specific topics select those topics in the Project Explorer first, using Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click. Select the topic containing the example of the style you want to replace last, so that you can select the style example in the next step.

Click inside some text formatted with the style you want to replace, then select Format > Replace Styles. Then select the Font Styles mode at the top of the dialog that appears.

All the formatting attributes of the current style are displayed in the left column and the style name is displayed at the top of the left column.

Examples:

Suppose you know that the text whose styles you want to replace contains sub-texts formatted with a different font that you want to reset. To do this you need to set the Font Face attribute to (Any).

If you also want to reset text formatted with a different size you must also set the Font Size attribute to (Any).

If you also want to reset text formatted with bold or italics you must set the Font Styles attribute to (Any).

The same principle applies to all the attributes in the list. To match any differences from the standard style settings you need to set the attributes for those differences to (Any). You can even do this for the style name, but be careful – this may reset more texts than you expect!

Select the new style you want to apply from the drop-down list directly below the Change to Format/Style: heading on the right. If you need to create the style first, select Edit Styles.

As soon as you have activated fuzzy options in the search with (Any) settings you can also start to find manually-applied formatting within your texts, i.e. formatting that does not match the standard style settings. This makes the Inline Formatting: options relevant.

"Remove inline formatting" resets all matching texts:

This option will reset all inline-formatted texts that match the search settings in the left-hand column to the settings of the target style selected.

Any texts that don't match the search settings will not be reset. This means that you can "protect" texts formatted in certain ways by choosing your search settings carefully. The best way to learn how to do this is to experiment with some test texts.

"Remove except B/I/U/Color" protects these attributes:

The second option "protects" bold, italic, underlined and colored text. This allows you to be a little less careful with your left column settings and still protect these formatting styles, which are very frequently applied manually.

"Custom Settings" lets you choose for yourself

This option gives you full control over the target formatting, in the same way that the individual settings in the left hand column let you control the search settings.

By default all the attributes are set to Use style attributes. To change the output formatting just change any of the settings.

Important: Note that using this option will create new inline formatting within the styled text!

A dialog will be displayed allowing you to choose where you want to replace: In the entire project, the main topics, the invisible topics or selected topics only. You can also perform a test run to check how many styles would be found and replaced before actually applying the changes.

Note that any changes in the current topic will only be visible in the editor after you close the Replace Styles dialog.