Cleaning Character Formats

[Mike Wickham]

If I'm reading your message right, you should be choosing "Character 
Tag:" in the Find dialog, rather than a "Character Format." The former 
searches for text with the assigned character style. The latter finds 
text with specific attributes, which may or may not have been assigned a 
character style.

Mike Wickham

On 7/9/2013 2:15 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> I want to remove rogue character formats and replace them with correct 
> ones. I've used Character Tools to generate a list of formats by file 
> so I know which ones are in each document of my book. I choose 
> "Character Format..." in the Find/Change palette, type the character 
> format name in the entry field, check the "Consider Case" checkbox, 
> check the "Document" radio button to check only the open document, and 
> click "Find."
>
> Usually, the "Find Character Format" dialog appears. I can't possibly 
> remember all the properties I assigned to every format I created, and 
> certainly wouldn't know the properties of a rogue or legacy style that 
> I didn't create. I just want to find the format by the name assigned 
> to it. Shouldn't those names appear in the scrollable entry field of 
> the Find/Change palette, the same way paragraph styles do? (Not even 
> default character styles show up.) Must I generate a long CT report on 
> all styles to get the properties to complete this dialog?
>
> If I close this dialog and try again, a "Specify the character format 
> to find" alert appears.
>
> My documents have only an A flow. I doubt the character format I'm 
> looking for would be on a master page. Even if a style or two were in 
> an unanchored box, for example, that doesn't explain all styles not 
> being available or found.
>
> I'm sure this is a case of user error. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>
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