Can I do this and if so, how?

On Sun, 24 May 2015 02:15:15 -0400, 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?


Yes, I understand. And I just tried it in Word. It works fine here.
I'm running Word 2013, not 2010, but it's highly unlikely that they
are any different in this respect.

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.

On 24/05/2015 07:15:15, 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, 'batch' formatting as you describe works here with word 2010 and
win 7 and also with word 2010 and win 8.1
Hold down the ctrl key and keep it down, highlight the different words
you want to format then click the Bold icon or press ctrl-b

--
mick

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.

Works ok for me with Word 2010 and Word 2003.
Ctrl highlight what you want then hit B,U,I,etc in the ribbon bar
(or non ribbon bar if you don't like ribbons).

Mike Tomlinson wrote on 5/24/2015 8:50 AM:
En el artículo , Big_Al
escribió:

I've known to copy HTML formatted text from web pages, like a recipe, and then
select the text and try to click the +A
to enlarge text and only some does. I have a feeling there is code that I
copied that is forcing a font size.

Paste it into Notepad first, then Ctrl-A, ctrl-X and paste it where you
wanted it to go. That removes the formatting.

I put the "paste unformatted" function on my quick access bar. So I can skip the notepad thing.

En el artículo , Big_Al
escribió:

I put the "paste unformatted" function on my quick access bar. So I can skip
the notepad thing.

Yes, I found that, but only after I'd got used to using Notepad as the
intermediate stage.

--

Mike Tomlinson wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote::

Just tried it -- I wanted to highlight "group" and "whole" in your
paragraph above, but as soon as I highlight one word, the other
highlighted word stops being highlighted.

Hold down the Ctrl key while highlighting.

I think the O/P is getting the multiple words selected OK, just that
Word only changes the formatting of the first selected word, rather than
all of them ... All I can say is it works in LibreOffice :-)

On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:37:56 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2015-05-24 2:15 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.

Can't you drag the pointer across the words to highlight them?



Of course, if the words are contiguous. But you can't if they aren't
contiguous, which I think is what he meant.

On Sun, 24 May 2015 14:02:22 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2015-05-24 1:50 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:37:56 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2015-05-24 2:15 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.

Can't you drag the pointer across the words to highlight them?



Of course, if the words are contiguous. But you can't if they aren't
contiguous, which I think is what he meant.

I eventually caught on.... ;-)


LOL! I thought you might, sooner or later.

Wolf K wrote:
On 2015-05-24 8:49 AM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , Steve
Hayes escribió:

Just tried it -- I wanted to highlight "group" and "whole" in your
paragraph above, but as soon as I highlight one word, the other
highlighted word stops being highlighted.

Hold down the Ctrl key while highlighting.

Good grief! Is that really the only way you can do it?

In Open Office and WordPerfect and every text-editor on this machine,
I just hold down the left mouse button and drag the pointer across
whatever I want to highlight.

Thats not what he wants to do. He wants to select a word here, another
there, etc. One does that by holding Ctrl and selecting the individual
words, just as one would do to select files. Left mouse and drag selects
everything over which the cursor passes.

En el artículo , Wolf K
escribió:

In Open Office and WordPerfect and every text-editor on this machine, I
just hold down the left mouse button and drag the pointer across
whatever I want to highlight.

He wants to highlight SEPARATE, INDIVIDUAL WORDS. Not a WHOLE BLOCK OF
TEXT.

--

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.



Afaics, neither you nor I replied to this thread using 'Word'.

--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps

On Sun, 24 May 2015 13:49:00 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artÃ*culo , Steve Hayes
escribió:

Just tried it -- I wanted to highlight "group" and "whole" in your
paragraph above, but as soon as I highlight one word, the other
highlighted word stops being highlighted.

Hold down the Ctrl key while highlighting.

That highlights ("selects", "defines", "marks") the whole line or
until the end of a sentence.


--
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 Sun, 24 May 2015 13:53:56 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2015-05-24 8:49 AM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Steve Hayes
escribió:

Just tried it -- I wanted to highlight "group" and "whole" in your
paragraph above, but as soon as I highlight one word, the other
highlighted word stops being highlighted.

Hold down the Ctrl key while highlighting.

Good grief! Is that really the only way you can do it?

In Open Office and WordPerfect and every text-editor on this machine, I
just hold down the left mouse button and drag the pointer across
whatever I want to highlight.

Really?

Do it in the above paragraph.

Highlight "Open Office" and "WordPerfect" and then press Ctrl-B to
make both words bold (at the same time, not separately).





--
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 Sun, 24 May 2015 14:00:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 24/05/2015 11:33, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2015 09:39:06 +0100, Roger
wrote:

On 24/05/2015 07:15, 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.

Not sure I understand your problem. I'm using Office 2007 rather than
2010 but, as far as I know, all versions of Word behave in the same way
- and I wouldn't expect 2010 to be any different in this respect.

If I highlight a group of words - or even a whole document, using CRTL-A
- and then click the B for bold or I for italic in the Format bar (or
press CTRL-B or CTRL-I), then everything highlighted becomes bold or italic.

Just tried it -- I wanted to highlight "group" and "whole" in your
paragraph above, but as soon as I highlight one word, the other
highlighted word stops being highlighted.


Do you mean that you wanted to highlight just the words "group" and
"whole" and not the words in between?

That's what the OP asked.

If so, it's easy enough. First highlight "group" and then hold down the
CRTL key while highlighting "whole".

Still doesn't work.

Doing that highlights to the end of sentence, but unhighlights the
first thing clicked on.


--
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