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From: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Global subscript change in Word 4?
Message-ID: <1991May8.180848.2438@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au>
Date: 8 May 91 08:08:48 GMT
References: <1991May1.130821.1@csc.anu.edu.au> <1991May7.134652.15691@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <28275C26.26315@orion.oac.uci.edu>
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In article <28275C26.26315@orion.oac.uci.edu>, eabu111@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Luh) writes:
> 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.

That's about it.  You can of course use Word to edit it but it is rather 
clumsy.

> 
> 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.

No sigh, this is one of Words BIG failures. Styles only apply to paragraphs,
there are no character styles - Oh I wish there were.

-- 
David E. Bellamy        Email: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Dept. Commerce, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA