From the “Underline style:” pulldown, choose “(none)”.Under the “Find what:” line, it should now show “Format: Underline”.From the “Underline style:” pulldown, choose the single thin line.Open the “Find and Replace” dialog (Ctrl-H).It looks like a lot of steps, but it’s really not that difficult, and it should all make sense when you look at it.
But I can’t do that for everyone, so I figured I’d explain the process, step by step. Two minutes later, I emailed the manuscript back with all the underlines changed to italics - and that included download and upload time. I offered to do this for a friend earlier today, and she emailed me her novel manuscript. Fortunately, it is possible to use Microsoft Word’s search and replace tool to make the change. But some editors and agents now prefer to have real italics instead of underlines. So many writers are used to underlining in their manuscripts. This can be convenient, but for "old timers," the Shift+F4 shortcut is handier because it works even without the Find pane displayed.For years, standard manuscript format has held that italics should be indicated by underlining. Instead, what you are looking for (and instances of what is found) is shown at the left side of the document. However, there is no dialog box that appears in Word 2010 or later versions, unless you are using the advanced Find and Replace capabilities. The above steps work great if you are using Word 2007. This procedure works the same as clicking Find Next repeatedly, and it is just as fast, but it gets rid of the annoying Find dialog box.
When the first occurrence is displayed, I press the Esc key (or click on Cancel).Use the Find feature as normal ( Ctrl+F), specifying what I want to search for and then looking for the first occurrence of the string.To overcome this, I generally do the following when I am searching for something:
Clicking on Find Next works great, but that bothersome dialog box is still blocking my view. I find myself using Find quite often in the course of creating a document, but there is one thing about Find that bothers me: I hate having the Find dialog box block part of my document as I am stepping through occurrences of a search string in my document. Using the Find and Replace tool, you can search for just about anything in your document. Word provides a fast, efficient, and flexible searching feature.
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