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From: eabu111@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Luh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Global subscript change in Word 4?
Summary: Maybe try using styles?
Message-ID: <28275C26.26315@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 02:02:14 GMT
References: <1991May1.130821.1@csc.anu.edu.au> <1991May7.134652.15691@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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In article <1991May7.134652.15691@news.cs.brandeis.edu> nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Nicolas Mercouroff) writes:
>In article <1991May1.130821.1@csc.anu.edu.au> inm501@csc.anu.edu.au writes:
>>
>>	I think I saw someone asking this question recently but I lost the 
>>solution.  So please bear with me.  How do you do a global change in Word 4 
>>with a given style?  I wanted to change all my subscript a to subscript b.
>>	Thanks.

>
>I don't know what was the solution proposed, but when I had to do 
>the same global change in my dissertation (like changing every 
>subscript 2 pt in 9 pt into a subscript 3 pt in 10 pt), I saved my 
>file in RTF (Rich Text Format). Then I opened it with a text-editor 
>with grep facilities (like Qued/M or MPW), performed a global change 
>of the coding of the subscript/font size format (I don't remember 
>how it is coded, but it is easy to figure it), and then re-opened it 
>with Word, et voila.

Hummm... just a suggestion off the top of my head - has anyone tried styles???
Define a style for superscript such as "Super" then when you want to place a
superscript, just use the style instead.  Then when you want to change the
style from super to subscript, just change the style and everything that used
the style superscript should change accordingly.

Steven
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