I'm not aware that you can change a font format to an actual character string. It may be that Word Basic can do it, with some programming, but I can't speak to that. You might try this: - load the document into Wordpad, and save it as RTF. - load that file into Notepad (or some other plain text editor) - go to the italicized text--you should see it surrounded by "\i" and "\i0" - globally replace "\i0" with "</i>" - globally replace "\i" with "<i>" - save the file, and reload it into Word (or Wordpad) to see if things look OK. Wordpad uses a much simpler form of RTF than Word. You can use the same technique for bolding (\b and \b0). Note that you may have to deal with unwanted blank spaces before and after these codes and the resulting HTML tags. Experimentation is recommended. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: Norm Wolcott To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Cc: nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:48 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] Italilc markkup Can anyone tell me how to change real italics in MSWord 2003 to html markup (<i>words</i> and the reverse? I do not want to change the document to html, just the italic markup. I used to know how to do it but I have forgotten. nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d