Change style of a sub-heading in bulk / Affinity Publisher 2

[mdesigns]

I am working on converting a daily diary entry into a book. This means I have 365 dates (the subheadings) on the document, and I want to change the style of all of them into a specific one.  I know how to change the style on 1 date, and then just click on other dates one by one to change them also. But is there a way to change them in bulk? Otherwise, it's a lot of work ahead.

[walt.farrell]

Ideally you would have started off using Text Styles, then you would just change the definition of the Text Style, and everything using it would change to match.

If you didn't do that, you could create a Text Style now, from the one entry you have changed. Then, if there is something unique to the styling of the other entries (unique font used, or unique font size, or unique color, etc.) you could use the Find and Replace panel to Find all the text with that characteristic, and then via the Replace field you could specify the Text Style that you have just created.

[mdesigns]

5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Ideally you would have started off using Text Styles, then you would just change the definition of the Text Style, and everything using it would change to match.

If you didn't do that, you could create a Text Style now, from the one entry you have changed. Then, if there is something unique to the styling of the other entries (unique font used, or unique font size, or unique color, etc.) you could use the Find and Replace panel to Find all the text with that characteristic, and then via the Replace field you could specify the Text Style that you have just created.

Hi @walt.farrell,

I imported a Word Manuscript as it is, and converted all content to "Body" Text Style (lost the styling from Word though). So, I hadn't applied the Text Style yet.

Also, I am changing the individual dates in a year (365 of them!). So, if I change the style for 01 January (as Heading 2), how do I use Find-Replace to change the remaining 364 dates? I could change for each month (12 times) and then the dates (30). 

Is that right?

Also, when I opened Find-Replace, I could not find the option to use a Text Style to replace. How is that done?

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, mdesigns said:

how do I use Find-Replace to change the remaining 364 dates?

There needs to be something unique to that text, to distinguish it from the other text. So you have to identify that. 

It might even be some sequence of characters that would let you use a regular expression to find the dates you want to change, that wouldn't find anything else. 

1 hour ago, mdesigns said:

Also, when I opened Find-Replace, I could not find the option to use a Text Style to replace. How is that done?

The great (cog) icon to the right of the Find and Replace fields let's you search for or apply formatting options.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

The great (cog) icon to the right of the Find and Replace fields let's you search for or apply formatting options.

If it isn't totally clear, I think he means the gear-shaped icon. The tooltip for it identifies it as the "Formatting" menu button. Clicking on it should pop up this menu:

Character & Paragraph Styles have the submenus for the text styles.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

I think he means the gear-shaped icon

Thanks. Auto-miscorrect strikes again.

[R C-R]