Find/Replace italics

Question

Hi guys, being relatively new to Trados, I struggle to italicise every occurrence of a word/expression in Trados. For example, how do I italicise each and every occurrence of "in vitro" in all target segments? 
 Many thanks in advance! 
 Christophe

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: I just would like to know how to do a global find/replace with formatting, here italicised. 
 This is not possible in Studio. If you want to do this I suggest you do it in the target file when you're finished with the translation. It's easy with Microsoft Word.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

If Paul’s suggestion is not enough and you still need to do it in Trados Studio, I’d filter by all the strings that need to be italicised. To do so, use the Display Advanced Filter : Just create a regex separating each instance you wish to italicise by a pipe symbol (|) and all the expression surrounded by brackets. In the example above: (in vitro|in vivo|in situ) Tick the Regular Expression checkbox and click on Apply Filter . Then manually select the text in Target segment and press CTRL+I to apply italics. This is the safest way and the recommended way if tehre are just a few instances to be italised. If you know how to use the Toolkit plugin, you can apply this replace all procedure: Target search: in vitro Replace with: in vitro Disclaimer: I've tested that it works with a dummy document, but please test it yourself and always work with a backup SDXLIFF. A typo in the Replace with string and you may not be able to open that XLIFF file again in Trados Studio.

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Find/Replace italics