Can I do this and if so, how?

"Pfsszxt" wrote in message
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On 5/24/2015 1:15 AM, wrote:
I use Windows 7 Professionsal and MS Office 2010.

Is it possible to, for lack of a better term, "batch" bold or italic or
underline words in a document?

I mean, if I have a document open in Word and I want to bold a half dozen
or
more words, is there a way to highlight them all then hit Bold? Or do I
just
have to highlight then bold each one individually. I tried using the Ctrl
key
and I could highlight several words, but when I hit Bold, only the first
word
was made bold.

Does this question make sense? An I describing what I want to do
properly?

Thanks.

why not just try it and see??

He DID try it, and it didn't work as advertised for him.
--
SC Tom

Steve Hayes wrote:
select "describing" and "wish" in your paragraphm above

My point was it would be impossible to do the following
' select "describing" and "wish" in your paragraph above '

Since that reply only exists in mine, your, and and any other
non-cropped newsgroup posts.


If I cut and paste it into Word, it bold-faces fine in both of my Office
Word installs (10 and 13).

--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:36:26 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:29:30 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 07:06:58 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

8On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:36:38 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:45:52 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

wrote:
I use Windows 7 Professionsal and MS Office 2010.

Is it possible to, for lack of a better term, "batch" bold or italic or
underline words in a document?

I mean, if I have a document open in Word and I want to bold a half dozen or
more words, is there a way to highlight them all then hit Bold? Or do I just
have to highlight then bold each one individually. I tried using the Ctrl key
and I could highlight several words, but when I hit Bold, only the first word
was made bold.

Does this question make sense? An I describing what I want to do properly?

Thanks.


Yes, you're describing it properly if you wish to 'boldface' a select
group of words in Word by selecting them (not highlighting).

Try to select "describing" and "wish" in your paragraphm above, and
press Ctrl-B to bold both of them?

If you can accomplish that, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.


The paragraph above is in our newsreaders, not in Word. Whether it
works in a newsreader is irrelevant to his question. It *does* work in
Word.

I copied it to Word and tried it there.


OK, thanks for the clarification. But it certainly wasn't apparent in
your earlier message. In fact, why bother copying anything, rather
than simply typing a few words?

Why bother typing a few words when you can just copy and paste the
words you have been reading?

And if you couldn't accomplish it in Word, you must have either done
something wrong, or there's something very strange in your computer.
As I said, it *does* work in Word.

As someone else pointed out, it was introduced as a new feature in
Word 2002 (or something like that) and the version I have on this
computer is 97.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On 5/24/2015 1:15 AM, wrote:
I use Windows 7 Professionsal and MS Office 2010.

Is it possible to, for lack of a better term, "batch" bold or italic or
underline words in a document?

I mean, if I have a document open in Word and I want to bold a half dozen or
more words, is there a way to highlight them all then hit Bold? Or do I just
have to highlight then bold each one individually. I tried using the Ctrl key
and I could highlight several words, but when I hit Bold, only the first word
was made bold.

Does this question make sense? An I describing what I want to do properly?

Thanks.


A novel idea-----try it to see!!

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:36:26 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:29:30 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 07:06:58 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

8On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:36:38 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:45:52 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

wrote:
I use Windows 7 Professionsal and MS Office 2010.

Is it possible to, for lack of a better term, "batch" bold or italic or
underline words in a document?

I mean, if I have a document open in Word and I want to bold a half dozen or
more words, is there a way to highlight them all then hit Bold? Or do I just
have to highlight then bold each one individually. I tried using the Ctrl key
and I could highlight several words, but when I hit Bold, only the first word
was made bold.

Does this question make sense? An I describing what I want to do properly?

Thanks.


Yes, you're describing it properly if you wish to 'boldface' a select
group of words in Word by selecting them (not highlighting).

Try to select "describing" and "wish" in your paragraphm above, and
press Ctrl-B to bold both of them?

If you can accomplish that, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.


The paragraph above is in our newsreaders, not in Word. Whether it
works in a newsreader is irrelevant to his question. It *does* work in
Word.

I copied it to Word and tried it there.


OK, thanks for the clarification. But it certainly wasn't apparent in
your earlier message. In fact, why bother copying anything, rather
than simply typing a few words?

Why bother typing a few words when you can just copy and paste the
words you have been reading?


Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.

On 26/05/2015 15:47, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:




Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.


Or why not just open any existing document in Word, and play around with
that (but don't save it, of course!)?
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Roger
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Steve Hayes wrote:
On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:36:26 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:29:30 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 07:06:58 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

8On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:36:38 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:45:52 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

wrote:
I use Windows 7 Professionsal and MS Office 2010.

Is it possible to, for lack of a better term, "batch" bold or italic or
underline words in a document?

I mean, if I have a document open in Word and I want to bold a half dozen or
more words, is there a way to highlight them all then hit Bold? Or do I just
have to highlight then bold each one individually. I tried using the Ctrl key
and I could highlight several words, but when I hit Bold, only the first word
was made bold.

Does this question make sense? An I describing what I want to do properly?

Thanks.


Yes, you're describing it properly if you wish to 'boldface' a select
group of words in Word by selecting them (not highlighting).

Try to select "describing" and "wish" in your paragraphm above, and
press Ctrl-B to bold both of them?

If you can accomplish that, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.


The paragraph above is in our newsreaders, not in Word. Whether it
works in a newsreader is irrelevant to his question. It *does* work in
Word.

I copied it to Word and tried it there.


OK, thanks for the clarification. But it certainly wasn't apparent in
your earlier message. In fact, why bother copying anything, rather
than simply typing a few words?

Why bother typing a few words when you can just copy and paste the
words you have been reading?

And if you couldn't accomplish it in Word, you must have either done
something wrong, or there's something very strange in your computer.
As I said, it *does* work in Word.

As someone else pointed out, it was introduced as a new feature in
Word 2002 (or something like that) and the version I have on this
computer is 97.




Word 97, now that makes sense of the earlier statement.

Since the op was querying about Word 2010, it would seem that would be
the baseline application for any comparison for bold-face capability in
Word.

Thanks for clarifying why it didn't work in *97*

--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

On Tue, 26 May 2015 17:06:54 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 26/05/2015 15:47, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:




Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.


Or why not just open any existing document in Word, and play around with
that (but don't save it, of course!)?


Sure that's fine, too. But typing a few words is still likely to be
faster than that.

But none of this really matters much. My way, your way, and his way
are all fine. Any difference between them is tiny.

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:47:59 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:36:26 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 25 May 2015 08:29:30 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 07:06:58 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

8On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:36:38 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:45:52 -0400, ". . .winston"
wrote:

wrote:
I use Windows 7 Professionsal and MS Office 2010.

Is it possible to, for lack of a better term, "batch" bold or italic or
underline words in a document?

I mean, if I have a document open in Word and I want to bold a half dozen or
more words, is there a way to highlight them all then hit Bold? Or do I just
have to highlight then bold each one individually. I tried using the Ctrl key
and I could highlight several words, but when I hit Bold, only the first word
was made bold.

Does this question make sense? An I describing what I want to do properly?

Thanks.


Yes, you're describing it properly if you wish to 'boldface' a select
group of words in Word by selecting them (not highlighting).

Try to select "describing" and "wish" in your paragraphm above, and
press Ctrl-B to bold both of them?

If you can accomplish that, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.


The paragraph above is in our newsreaders, not in Word. Whether it
works in a newsreader is irrelevant to his question. It *does* work in
Word.

I copied it to Word and tried it there.


OK, thanks for the clarification. But it certainly wasn't apparent in
your earlier message. In fact, why bother copying anything, rather
than simply typing a few words?

Why bother typing a few words when you can just copy and paste the
words you have been reading?


Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.

Still takes longer to type than Ctrl-V.




--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Tue, 26 May 2015 17:06:54 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 26/05/2015 15:47, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:




Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.


Or why not just open any existing document in Word, and play around with
that (but don't save it, of course!)?

Because it takes longer.

Word opens with a blank document. You just post a couple of paragraphs
from the post you have been reading, whind which will be quoted in
your reply, so the person you are replying to can see what you did.




--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Tue, 26 May 2015 20:30:47 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:47:59 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:


OK, thanks for the clarification. But it certainly wasn't apparent in
your earlier message. In fact, why bother copying anything, rather
than simply typing a few words?

Why bother typing a few words when you can just copy and paste the
words you have been reading?


Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.

Still takes longer to type than Ctrl-V.



Yes, but not longer than selecting a phrase, pressing Ctrl-C, and then
pressing Ctrl-V in Word.

But as I said in my last message in this thread, any difference is
tiny, and regardless of whether I'm right or you are, it isn't worth
arguing about.

On Tue, 26 May 2015 12:01:25 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2015 20:30:47 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:47:59 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Tue, 26 May 2015 07:29:08 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:


OK, thanks for the clarification. But it certainly wasn't apparent in
your earlier message. In fact, why bother copying anything, rather
than simply typing a few words?

Why bother typing a few words when you can just copy and paste the
words you have been reading?


Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's a lot faster to type something
like qq ww ee than to copy and paste. They don't need to be real words
and they don't need to be long.

Still takes longer to type than Ctrl-V.



Yes, but not longer than selecting a phrase, pressing Ctrl-C, and then
pressing Ctrl-V in Word.

But as I said in my last message in this thread, any difference is
tiny, and regardless of whether I'm right or you are, it isn't worth
arguing about.

So why did you? :-J




--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk