Reply To: Italicizing in a long document

I've had this happen to me. I regularly work with 2-300 page documents that include lots of images, captions, tables, whatever. And it always seemed to me that if I added Grep styles into a couple of styles things slowed down. The minute I got rid of the styles by doing a search and applying the style things speeded up. It was as if everytime I tried to make a correction such as inserting some text the program had to search again for where the styles needed to get applied because all the text had shifted. Consequently I've used the feature sparingly on long documents. Too bad, it's a nice feature.

And this is on a fast machine with lots of RAM.