Keeping italics on an imported rtf document

[MarioM]

I'm importing a big document of text (80,000 words) into a Publisher document. Most of it is normal text, but some words and phrases are in italics. How do I apply my Publisher style to this text and still keep the italicized material italicized?

[Old Bruce]

You are going to have to say what type of document you are importing. Meaning what program is it from and what is the extension .doc .rtf .something else.

[MarioM]

Old Bruce:

.rtf extension. Made by Nisus Writer Express. 

[Old Bruce]

That .rtf should import fine. 

Is the problem with keeping the text italic after you apply a Paragraph style to it? Or is the italic not importing at all?

What I did was just import some .rtf file (which contained some italic text) and the text showed up in the font from the .rtf file with the italic text italic. Are you not seeing this?

If you want to then change the paragraph styles (which I do suggest you do instead of leaving them as [no style]) then you must first hunt down all the imported italic. and replace it with a character style with Italic as its only attribute, I name it "Italic". Then you can change the paragraph styles to what ever.

Find and replace for the Italic search. use the Format section and check the Italic checkbox and in the replacement field use your Character Style "Italic"

find then replace all.

[MarioM]

Old Bruce,

Thank you for your help. The problem was that italics disappeared when I applied my paragraph style to the imported text. I was not aware of the difference between style and format. You have straightened things out for me. Thanks! I do appreciate it.