On 2011-04-10 [+0900 JST], at 9:59 PM, takamitsu muraoka wrote:

> Some time ago Kino helped me on how to deal with R-L texts keyed-in under
> the NW Classic in the reverse mode, and referred me to a useful macro under
> NW Pro: Macro > Changing Text > Reverse Text.
> By applying this macro I can reverse any Hebrew phrase or sentence back to
> the right sequence. But is there any way of doing this globally instead of
> searching every single sequence in footnotes and applying this macro
> manually? When there are hundreds of such cases in a single document full of
> footnotes, this becomes a really bloody nuisance.

I think you want to run the macro on text portions originally having "Reverse" style. Right? If so and IIRC, NWP adds "Reverse" character style on them when importing a NW Classic document. You can select them all by [1] putting the insertion point somewhere in a text portion having that character style and [2] choosing Select All from the Character Style menu in the status bar the bottom of the document window.

Alternatively and assuming those text portions to be in the same font, you can select them by an Attribute Sensitive Find All:

1. Make active the Find panel;
2. Switch to PowerFind Pro mode;
3. Type "\p{Any}+" (without quotes) in the Find field;
4. Apply Format:Any Attributes on "\p{Any}+" (Attribute Sensitive is checked automatically);
5. Apply the font on "\p{Any}+".


Kino