The RegEx would be great

Wouldn’t that be nice. But no, they are just in a default italic that comes in from word. That’s the problem, ALL italics are the same and I am trying to convince them that they need to be different in different situations.

Because otherwise I would end up changing all the Italic to the same character style but I need 2 different character styles for Italic: 1 for the medium typeface ital, and 1 for the light typeface ital that is within the parentheses.

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.

Thank you Obi-wan! Almost perfect except only works on the first instance in any given cell. Is it possible to change it to grab any instance in all cells?