Finding italicized words

[cbordey]

Hello,

 

I'm trying to find and replace all italicized words from a copied and pasted word document. My goal is to apply the italicized character style to the italicized words so that when I apply paragraph styles, the italicized words will remain italicized. However, it seems that the find and replace function only highlights the first instance of an italicized word. Clicking on the others does not take me to that page and the highlighted area does not move. So I have to manually find these italicized words which is getting tedious (this is one of many chapters). Any ideas on what I might not be doing correctly?  In the gear icon, I have "regular expression" checked, though I tried the others and arrive at same issue. In the gear icon -> format menu, I have "italicized" checked.  Below are some screen shots. Thanks everyone for your expertise!

 

Chris

 

 

 

[Old Bruce]

Use the Character Style in the Replace field to apply the "Italic" Character Style. I assume you have made a Character Style.

[cbordey]

Well I want to apply the "italic" character style to these italicized words. But to do that I don't want to manually search for the italicized words. The find and replace shows me a list of the italicized words but doesn't take me to their location when I click on it, except for the first italicized word on the list. My workaround is to screenshot the list, then clear the find and replace fields, then individually find each item on the screenshot list. 

[Old Bruce]

17 minutes ago, cbordey said:

Well I want to apply the "italic" character style to these italicized words. But to do that I don't want to manually search for the italicized words.

I search for italic applied characters/words whatever we call them.

I then apply my Italic Character Style to All the words and it is done. I have to hit the Find button then the Replace All button.