Hi :) If you are talking about the pasted text having the same format as the text surrounding where you are placing it then i think that is posted as a bug-report already. It was a very long time ago tho so it might be worth bumping the thread if you have soemthing useful to add (assuming you can find it!) Sorry for not being particularly helpful! Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 13/10/11, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote: From: e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> Subject: [libreoffice-users] replace text with text formatted by style To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 13 October, 2011, 15:35 Readers, Is it possible to use the 'find' dialogue window to replace text that a style can be applied to? For example find text 'abc' and replace with 'abc' whereby a style (emphasised) is applied to the result. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted