Question

I’ve several hundred Word documents that I need to insert html tags as per below:

a short bold text line

becomes

a short <b>bold text</b> line

Does anyone know the easiest and most efficient way of doing this?

Currently looking at doing a macro.

Answer 1

Here’s a solution I found, tested with Word 2010:

In the search and replace dialog,

Leave the Find what: field blank
In the Replace with: put <b>^&</b>
In the Format -> Font section, select Bold
Replace All

This will put the tags around your bold text. Then you can just copy it to put it in the webpage.

Edit:

Alternatively, you could use Wildcards with search and replace, using the pattern \<b\>(*)\</b\>.