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The methods described below only work for paragraphs already formatted with Help+Manual styles. See the topic on unstyled paragraphs for instructions on how to deal with paragraphs that do not yet have styles applied.
Before you try to follow these instructions, please study the Introduction to style replacement for an explanation of how the Replace Styles function works. This will make it much easier for you to use this feature.
This is the most straightforward operation. It simply takes paragraphs formatted with one style and applies a different style to them. Exact search replaces only the styles of paragraphs formatted with the named style. Any inline-formatted text within text formatted with the target style will be protected, as will any text formatted with other styles. Click on the individual steps below to display more detailed instructions. 1.Select multiple topics if you want to replace only in some topics
2.Click in a styled paragraph in the editor, then select Replace Styles and Paragraph mode
3.Leave all left column attributes unchanged
4.Select the new style in the right column
5.Leave the inline formatting settings unchanged
6.Click on Replace Styles to execute
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This method allows you to extend the scope of your search, so that in addition to finding paragraphs that exactly match your style you can also apply the target style to other paragraphs. You will probably want to do this, because most texts will contain paragraphs with additional manual indents and so on. Fuzzy searches only seem complicated at first, they are actually quite simple. If you have trouble try the examples at the bottom of the instructions, they will help demonstrate how it works. Click on the individual steps below to display more detailed instructions. 1.Select multiple topics if you want to replace only in some topics
2.Click in a styled paragraph the editor, then select Replace Styles and Paragraph mode
3.Set selected left-column attributes to (Any)
4.Select the new style in the right column
5.Adjust the inline formatting settings for the desired result
6.Click on Replace Styles to execute
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Objective: |
Search for settings: |
Change to settings: |
Replace one paragraph style with another. Include paragraphs with manually-modified indents in the search. |
•Left Indent and/or Right Indent set to (Any) or (Any value <> 0) •All other attributes unchanged, including Para Style Name |
•Para Style Name set to target paragraph style name •Inline Formatting set to Remove except Alignment+Indent |
Replace one paragraph style with another. Include paragraphs with manually-modified indents and manually-modified alignment in the search. |
•Left Indent and/or Right Indent set to (Any) or (Any value <> 0), Alignment set to (Any). •All other attributes unchanged, including Para Style Name |
•Para Style Name set to target paragraph style name •Inline Formatting set to Remove except Alignment+Indent |
Replace one paragraph style with another and reset all manually-applied paragraph formatting, including alignments and indents. |
•All attributes unchanged, including the style name. |
•Para Style Name set to target style. •Inline Formatting set to Remove inline formatting |
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