Most documents contain different types of formatting throughout. If you want to change a specific formatting, such as all bold characters to italics, you can manually search through your document and change each instance. However, if your document is large, this can take quite some time to do. There is also the chance that you may miss some of the instances. A better option is to use the Find and Replace options as described below.

1. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Replace.
2. To search for specific formatting, leave the Find what field blank. Click Format, and then select the formats that you want to find and replace.
3. Click the Replace with box, click Format, and then select the replacement formats.
4. Click Find Next, and then click Replace.
5. To replace all instances of the specified formatting, click Replace All.