Reply To: Finding and Copying Italics

By find/change window..GREP
1.1- Found italic
1.2- Replace by Found+special char in italic ( something is not in your text ) ( XOX )
2.1- Found all reg
2.2- Replace by nothing
3.1- Found all End of paragraph
3.2- Replace by nothing
4.1- Find special char in italic( XOX )
4.2- Replace by End of paragraph
At the end you have all italic text… line by line
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