Simple Microsoft Word Question (I hope).

[magellan01]

@Magiver

You have to have the text highlighted for it to work. THEN you hit Shift F3.

Tried it again, just to make sure. STILL doesn’t work. It just makes the F3 function go in slow motion. I also tried every combination of Command, Shift, Function, and Control keys with F3. No dice.

@Magiver

Another fix for your problem would be to use the replace function. Example: if there is a tabbed space at the beginning of each paragraph you would highlight that area and copy it (to copy the imbedded tab) and then pull up replace. Paste the copied tab in the “replace” section and then hit “alt A” which runs the “replace all” function.

There’s too much and too many different types of formatting for that to be practical. But thanks for the idea.

@Magiver

And the customize function is in all MS software. It’s done that way so you don’t have 5000 buttons all over the place. It is worth spending 30 minutes scrolling through them to find usefull stuff. The first thing I do in Excel is bring up the “set print area” button.

Yeah, I’m thrilled to have learned about this.

[ladydisco]

In Word, Edit>Select All then Copy into a blank Notepad document.
Copy and paste that back into a blank Word document.
That’ll strip the formatting and apply whatever your normal style/font is.

[magellan01]

@ladydisco

In Word, Edit>Select All then Copy into a blank Notepad document.
Copy and paste that back into a blank Word document.
That’ll strip the formatting and apply whatever your normal style/font is.

Nice suggestion. Thanks.

[JustThinkin]

@magellan01

There’s too much and too many different types of formatting for that to be practical. But thanks for the idea.

This is why it makes sense to use styles instead of manual formatting.