Clear all direct Formatting EXCEPT Italics?

[RSacky]

Hi,

I have a 500 page document that I need to clear all the direct formatting EXCEPT for the Italics (in order to properly apply the desired styles). This is for a novel. Is there an automated way to do this for all 500 pages? Unfortunately there are italics on virtually every page that must be retained - far too much to clear all direct formatting and manually re-instate all of the Italics.

The original document is in WORD format, if that makes any difference at all.

In WORD, I was able to select all of the text, paste into a new WORD document and select an option to inherit the new formatting, which seemed to keep the italics and remove most of the original formatting. Then I could import (or paste) the new text into my Libre Writer document - but it seems to have retained some paragraph formatting.

I just want to know if there is a better way to do this and be sure all of the OTHER direct formatting is gone so no aberrations appear as I alter the assigned styles.

Thanks!

[PYS]

Hi

You can replace italic direct formatting, then clear all others:

1. Edit▸Find & Replace, click in Search For then unfold Other options
2. Click Attributes▸check Font Posture, Ok
3. Click Find All

Expected result : All italic (direct formatting) selected, so you can apply the Emphasis character style by double click in the sidebar.

Then you can select all the text and menu Format▸Clear direct formatting: Emphasis style is preserved.

Regards

[mahfiaz]

For bold search for attribute “Font weight” and use character style “Strong emphasis”.