Find and Replace is not just for finding and replacing a specific word with another word; it can also be used to change a format throughout your document. For example, say you used bold to emphasize certain words, as shown in Figure A.
Figure A
You decide that you would like to change the words in bold to regular text and their font color to blue. Follow these steps:
- Go to Edit | Replace. (In Word 2007, click Edit on the Home tab and then click Replace.)
- Click in the Find What text box and press Ctrl + B.
- Click in the Replace With text box.
- Click the More button.
- Click the Format button and then click Font (Figure B).
Figure B
- Click Regular under Font style.
- Click the Color drop-down arrow and select blue (Figure C).
Figure C
- Click OK.
- Click the Replace All button (Figure D).
As you can see in Figure E, all the previously bold text is no longer bold, but blue.
Figure D
Figure E
Note: If you just need to convert to regular text, press Ctrl + B in the Find What box and then click in the Replace With box and press Ctrl + B twice. This tells Word to replace Bold with Not Bold. In a similar fashion, you can press Ctrl + I or Ctrl + U to find and replace all occurrences of text that are italicized or underlined, respectively.
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