Reply To: Find/Change paragraph style only overrides local formatting

Thanks for the ideas and the script. My issue is a bit complex in that I am using a find/change script to run through a very long document (500pgs) which has complicated styling. I can’t delete one paragraph style in lieu of another because in my script I am temporarily separating parenthetical text, assigning it a different (temporary) paragraph style, then searching within that text for local italic formatting, replacing that with my italic character style, and then returning the parenthetical text to its original paragraph which returns it to the original paragraph style. (I can’t just search for local formatting “italic” because all the parenthetical text needs to be in a lighter typeface). If I could just figure out how to do a find/change ALL without eliminating the local formatting, that would solve it.