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From: stephenc on 23 Apr 2010 11:24
Hi everyone,
I need to change the properties of a lot of StyleRef fields, but am not sure
how to go about it. Where a StyleRef refers to "Heading 1" I need it to refer
to "Heading 2". The fields are mainly in headers and footers, but could be
anywhere in a document.
--
Stephenc
From: Jay Freedman on 23 Apr 2010 12:29
The first step is to press Alt+F9 to display all the field codes in the
document.

The StyleRef field codes will probably look like

{ STYLEREF "Heading 1" \* MERGEFORMAT }

although the keywords may be lower case or mixed case if some of the fields
were created manually instead of using the Insert Field dialog.

Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
wildcards" box. Put the following expression in the Find What box:

(STYLEREF*Heading) 1

and put this one in the Replace With box:

\1 2

Be careful to include the spaces in the expressions, or use copy/paste from
this post. Make sure the Search dropdown is set to All, and click the
Replace All button. This will search all the areas of the document,
including headers and footers.

If some of the field codes are lower case or mixed case, you'll need to
repeat the replacement with the matching case in the Find What box; wildcard
searches are always case-sensitive.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

stephenc wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I need to change the properties of a lot of StyleRef fields, but am
> not sure how to go about it. Where a StyleRef refers to "Heading 1" I
> need it to refer to "Heading 2". The fields are mainly in headers and
> footers, but could be anywhere in a document.


From: stephenc on 24 Apr 2010 05:58
Thanks for helping me, Jay. I really appreciate it.
--
Stephenc


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> The first step is to press Alt+F9 to display all the field codes in the
> document.
>
> The StyleRef field codes will probably look like
>
> { STYLEREF "Heading 1" \* MERGEFORMAT }
>
> although the keywords may be lower case or mixed case if some of the fields
> were created manually instead of using the Insert Field dialog.
>
> Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
> wildcards" box. Put the following expression in the Find What box:
>
> (STYLEREF*Heading) 1
>
> and put this one in the Replace With box:
>
> \1 2
>
> Be careful to include the spaces in the expressions, or use copy/paste from
> this post. Make sure the Search dropdown is set to All, and click the
> Replace All button. This will search all the areas of the document,
> including headers and footers.
>
> If some of the field codes are lower case or mixed case, you'll need to
> repeat the replacement with the matching case in the Find What box; wildcard
> searches are always case-sensitive.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
> stephenc wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I need to change the properties of a lot of StyleRef fields, but am
> > not sure how to go about it. Where a StyleRef refers to "Heading 1" I
> > need it to refer to "Heading 2". The fields are mainly in headers and
> > footers, but could be anywhere in a document.
>
>
> .
>
From: stephenc on 26 Apr 2010 11:37
I've not used Replace to work with fields before. Just out of interest, what
is the construct for replacing the style name? For example, if I wanted to
change "Heading 1" to "Contents"?
--
Stephenc


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> The first step is to press Alt+F9 to display all the field codes in the
> document.
>
> The StyleRef field codes will probably look like
>
> { STYLEREF "Heading 1" \* MERGEFORMAT }
>
> although the keywords may be lower case or mixed case if some of the fields
> were created manually instead of using the Insert Field dialog.
>
> Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
> wildcards" box. Put the following expression in the Find What box:
>
> (STYLEREF*Heading) 1
>
> and put this one in the Replace With box:
>
> \1 2
>
> Be careful to include the spaces in the expressions, or use copy/paste from
> this post. Make sure the Search dropdown is set to All, and click the
> Replace All button. This will search all the areas of the document,
> including headers and footers.
>
> If some of the field codes are lower case or mixed case, you'll need to
> repeat the replacement with the matching case in the Find What box; wildcard
> searches are always case-sensitive.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
> all may benefit.
>
> stephenc wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > I need to change the properties of a lot of StyleRef fields, but am
> > not sure how to go about it. Where a StyleRef refers to "Heading 1" I
> > need it to refer to "Heading 2". The fields are mainly in headers and
> > footers, but could be anywhere in a document.
>
>
> .
>
From: Jay Freedman on 26 Apr 2010 12:37
For the Find What box, use the expression

(STYLEREF*)Heading 1

For the Replace With box, use

\1Contents

The (STYLEREF*) part of the search expression will match the word STYLEREF
plus the space and quote mark, and that will be used as the value of the \1
in the replacement expression.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

stephenc wrote:
> I've not used Replace to work with fields before. Just out of
> interest, what is the construct for replacing the style name? For
> example, if I wanted to change "Heading 1" to "Contents"?
>
>> The first step is to press Alt+F9 to display all the field codes in
>> the document.
>>
>> The StyleRef field codes will probably look like
>>
>> { STYLEREF "Heading 1" \* MERGEFORMAT }
>>
>> although the keywords may be lower case or mixed case if some of the
>> fields were created manually instead of using the Insert Field
>> dialog.
>>
>> Open the Replace dialog, click the More button, and check the "Use
>> wildcards" box. Put the following expression in the Find What box:
>>
>> (STYLEREF*Heading) 1
>>
>> and put this one in the Replace With box:
>>
>> \1 2
>>
>> Be careful to include the spaces in the expressions, or use
>> copy/paste from this post. Make sure the Search dropdown is set to
>> All, and click the Replace All button. This will search all the
>> areas of the document, including headers and footers.
>>
>> If some of the field codes are lower case or mixed case, you'll need
>> to repeat the replacement with the matching case in the Find What
>> box; wildcard searches are always case-sensitive.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
>> newsgroup so all may benefit.
>>
>> stephenc wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I need to change the properties of a lot of StyleRef fields, but am
>>> not sure how to go about it. Where a StyleRef refers to "Heading 1"
>>> I need it to refer to "Heading 2". The fields are mainly in headers
>>> and footers, but could be anywhere in a document.
>>
>>
>> .


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