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Adding Tags to Text

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If you love working in HTML, you know that it is created by simply adding tags to regular text. Tags do nothing more than describe how a browser
should display the text. HTML can be created by hand or automatically, by program. You can even use Word to create your HTML for you. What if
you don't want Word to do the HTML automatically, but you want to use Word's tools to help you in your HTML creation? For instance, you might
want to search for italicized text within a document and then surround it with the HTML tags that signify the text should be displayed in italics. You
can do this by following these steps:
1. Press Ctrl+H. Word displays the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
2. Click on the More button, if it is available. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
3. With the insertion point in the Find What box, click the Format button and choose Font. Word displays the Find Font dialog box. (See Figure
2.)

Figure 2. The Find Font dialog box.

4. In the Font Style list, choose Italic.
5. Click on OK to dismiss the Find Font dialog box.
6. In the Replace With box, enter "<i>^&</i>" (without the quote marks). Both <i> and </i> are HTML tags for italics, and ^& is the special code
for the Find What text. In other words, you want to replace what you find with what you found, but make sure it is surrounded by the HTML
tags for italics.
7. With the insertion point still in the Replace With box, click the Format button and choose Font to again display the Find Font dialog box.
8. Scroll down in the Font Style list and choose Not Italic. You want to do this so that when the find and replace operation is done, not only have
you added the proper HTML tags, but you are turning off the italics attribute of the found text. This is important so that if you later run the
same macro on the same document, you don't get large numbers of nested HTML tags.
9. Click on OK to dismiss the Find Font dialog box.
10. Click on Replace All to process the entire document, or use the other buttons in the Find and Replace dialog box to step through the
occurrences of italic text one at a time.
The same find and replace technique can be used to add other HTML tags, as desired. For instance, you could add the tags for bold text, <b> and </b>
by searching for Bold in step 4, using the proper tags in step 6, and replacing with Not Bold in step 8.
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2016-05-13 06:42:57
I noticed now that this method don't work propierty for text in table cell.
Rafal
For example. If below only "bold" word is bolded:

This is bold text

then in results I have:

This is bold<b></b> text

2016-01-21 05:52:38
How will convert XML tag to MS word style using the macro in MS 2003 eg. XML TAg is
Sanjay Kumar <abc> and style in ms word should be same e.g "abc".

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2015-08-08 04:55:16
I've got word 97 and am trying to create paragraph tags. Have tried to follow your advice but
DD got stuck. Should I be doing something different.

2013-10-24 12:56:40
Thank you! It is exactly what I was looking for. ++++
Ivan

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