Bolding text in brackets

[Ridders]

I work with documents where I have to check all items that are shown in
brackets. Currently, to make the areas in brackets more obvious, I go through
the document and make them all bold, one-by-one (which takes a long time!).

Is there a way I can make all the text in brackets bold, through either a
macro or find and replace?

Thanks.

 

[Stefan Blom]

The following should work, using Find and Replace:

Click the More button and then check the "Use wildcards" option.

"Find what": \[*\]

"Replace with": ^&

With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, specify bold
formatting: Click the Format button, click Font, specify Bold. Confirm
with OK.

Click Replace All.

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[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Ridders was telling us:
Ridders nous racontait que :

I work with documents where I have to check all items that are shown
in brackets. Currently, to make the areas in brackets more obvious, I
go through the document and make them all bold, one-by-one (which
takes a long time!).

Is there a way I can make all the text in brackets bold, through
either a macro or find and replace?

Find/Replace:

Find what:
\(*\)
Replace with:
Type nothing, but use the Format button at the bottom (You may have to
click on the More button first) to select Font > Bold

Check the Wildcard checkbox.

Click replace All

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Salut!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Jean-Guy Marcil was telling us:
Jean-Guy Marcil nous racontait que :

Ridders was telling us:
Ridders nous racontait que :


Find/Replace:

Find what:
\(*\)
Replace with:
Type nothing, but use the Format button at the bottom (You may
have to click on the More button first) to select Font > Bold

Check the Wildcard checkbox.

Click replace All

Never mind this post, use Stefan's suggestion.... I confused brackets with
parenthesis...

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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Stefan Blom]

When I first saw your response, I thought I had done the opposite! <g>

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