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Using Find/Change for text formatting

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Using Find/Change for text formatting

- [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 further. 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 at 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 dialog box, by going to the edit menu and choosing Find/Change. Or of course you could press command or control F. So up here in the find what field, we're going to type the word we're looking for. Which is Portland. That way we'll find everywhere that that word shows up. And now we're going to apply formatting to it, by changing…

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