Suppose you want to apply a particular formatting attribute to all the headings in your document in one fell swoop. If you use four heading levels in your document, and you want to make them all red, you could use Find and Replace to search for all the heading levels, in turn, and change them to red. This gets tedious, of course. You could speed up the process by using a macro, but the macro would still be quite long since you would still need to do four separate Find and Replace operations.
There is a quicker way, however: Do your work in Outline view. When you show only certain heading levels in Outline view, Find and Replace only operates on those particular heading levels. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
Figure 2. The Replace Font dialog box.
The result of this procedure is that all the headings in the document are changed to red text. This works because Find and Replace only works with whatever is visible when you are working in Outline view. If you didn't use Find and Replace, but instead selected the whole document (Ctrl+A) and changed the font to red, Word would make the changes in everything you see and everything that is hidden. Using Find and Replace, instead, results in only the visible text being modified.
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