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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] We looked at the find change feature back in an earlier chapter, but we 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. We could get that from the edit menu, but I'll just press Command or Control + F. I could use the color tab to change my colors, but I'm going to do a little bit more, so I'll choose the text tab. So here in the find what field, I'm just going to type the word Portland. That way we'll find everywhere that that word shows up. I want to make sure the change to field is blank…

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