Lesson C: Clean Up the Formatting

Whenever possible, I try to use Find/Change to help me format text. This is no exception. We have bolds and italics that aren’t yet protected by character styles. We will find those and apply the correct styles to them, then clear the remaining overrides. After that, a couple more searches will allow us to format the rest.

Find/Change to the Rescue

  • Summon the Find/Change dialog with -F/Ctrl-F. Check the scope of the search in the menu labeled Search. In this exercise we can use Document or Story.

Be careful if you highlight any text because that often changes the scope of the search to only the highlighted ...

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