Replace using wildcards

Question

I have a large file which contains a good deal of text between quotation marks ("").

I want to italicise all of the text within quotation marks, throughout the document, but not the quotation marks themselves.

Can I do this with 'Replace' using a wildcard to select the text?

Answer 1

Use

Find What: ["^034"][!"^034"]{1,}["^034"]

Replace With Italic Font Format: \n

and then

Find What: (["^034"])

and then remove the Italic font format and replace with: \n

Answer 2

Robert

I typed your FIND Text and word responds with the message "We couldn't find what you were looking for."

Answer 3

Thanks, Charles, but I am afraid that I am now even more confused.

Firstly, how do I specify the FIND part.  (e.g. "*" or "(*)"? -  neither of which work.

Secondly, how do I say that I want to keep the wildcard text in the REPLACE.

Answer 4

Try the following Find/Replace with "Use wildcards" ON:

Find What: ""^034[""^034]

Replace With Italic Font Format: "\1"

Answer 5

Yes. You should be able to. Here are the references I use when doing wildcard replaces:

• Replace using wildcards
• Finding and replacing characters using wildcards