How to select bold text only?

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How to select bold text only?

I have pasted some text into a pages document which contains both bold and regular text. I want to delete all of the regular text and keep only the bold text. As the document is 106 pages long, is there an easy way to do this? i.e Can I somehow select only the bold text?

Dual 2.3 GHz G5 G5 2.5gig RAM and 1.5 GHZ PB, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Feb 21, 2006 3:45 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 23, 2006 12:59 AM in response to jeremy smith12

This AppleScript should select all bold text in a Pages 2 document.

The script should be pasted into Script Editor and should be on one line.

<pre>tell application "Pages" to select (every character of body text of front document whose bold is true)</pre>

To delete all bold text just replace "select" with "delete". That is:

<pre>tell application "Pages" to delete (every character of body text of front document whose bold is true)</pre>

Dale

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Answer 2

Mr. Large

Level 2

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Feb 21, 2006 4:30 PM in response to jeremy smith12

I don't think so. There may be something you could do using Automator/Apple Script.

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Answer 3

Feb 22, 2006 3:57 PM in response to jeremy smith12

Hi,

You can probably use the Find Panel to search for text of a particular style and replace each occurrence with a space, or nothing.

Just a thought,
Peter

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Answer 4

Feb 22, 2006 4:43 PM in response to Nyarlathotep

Go to Edit > Select All

Then go to Format > Font > Bold

That should do the trick!

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Answer 5

John H

Level 3

859 points

Feb 22, 2006 7:46 PM in response to wolfcreekads

No unless you have made the words bold by using a "bold" character style (which you would of had to create yourself). You can then use the style to select all instances of that style.

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