MS Word Question

[Dick Margulis]

Brasel, Russell wrote:
> I'm working with a large document (over 200 pages) in MS Word 2003, and
> I need to reformat text from Heading 3 to Body Text.  I can't do a
> simple select all Heading 3s and change them in Styles and Formatting,
> because I have a lot of Heading 3's that need to remain that way.  (By
> the way, this doc is my source for a Doc-to-Help project.)
> 
> For example, I have this recurring text, "Domain Restrictions," (70+
> instances) and I want to change it from H3 to Body Text.  I also have 4
> other text headings like this, so you can see why I want to do it
> automatically rather than one by one.  I really don't want to be here
> Saturday afternoon.
> 

And what's the challenge? In the Find/Replace dialog, you can specify 
both the text to search for (e.g., Domain Restrictions) and the 
paragraph style to search for. Replace it with the same text in the the 
desired new paragraph style. Repeat for the other four headings, and 
you're done. If you have hundreds of files to do this in and it's going 
to be a recurring issue, it's easy to build a macro to do all five of 
the headings in one macro.