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Using Find/Change for text formatting

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Using Find/Change for text formatting

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- [Instructor] I showed you the Find/Change feature back in an earlier chapter, but I focused just on finding and changing text throughout your document, or even across multiple documents. Now I want to take it farther. I want to talk about adding text formatting to the mix. For example, I have my magazine document open here and my designer told me I need to format every instance of the word Portland a certain way. But it would be really tiresome to have to go in there and find every one of them, and then change the formatting one at a time. So of course, we want to use our friend the Find/Change dialogue box, which we can find by going to the Edit menu and then choosing Find/Change. Or of course, you could press command or control F. Now we're in the text tab of the Find/Change dialogue box. So down here in the Find what field, I'm just going to type Portland. That way we'll find everywhere that that word shows up. Now…

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