It seems to have a way, but indeed a bit less than obvious.

It find that in powerFind, if you enter "any text" in the find field,
then with it selected choose from the Format menu "Any Attributes"
then after that, apply "italic" it will then find the italicized  
words or parts of words.
you could of course choose any word if that were the intent.)

You could also use the replace to put in the designators and the  
"Found" text to save a lot of tedium, as you could merely click once  
for each occurrence.

Hope this helps,
	Ben Andrus

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On 2010 May 23, Sun, at 3:24 pm, Alan & Elaine wrote:
> Is there a way in Nisus to "Find italics"?
>
> I have to post a 25,000 word text to a site that does not show  
> italics but I need to indicate where italics belong. My intention  
> is to bracket italicised text with degree signs [e.g.,°italics°]. I  
> can do the degree sign entry manually but I want to be sure that I  
> find all italics first.
>
> I would have thought that 'find italics' or 'find bold' would have  
> been available part of the basic find/replace dialog but cannot  
> find it.
>
> AlanD