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find 'n' replace in Word: insert text before every occurrence of a style - Greg - 03-04-2010 I've got a document with two character styles; everything is either one style or the other. I want to take this Word document and convert the information into XML, for storage or parsing. So, I want to surround every chunk of text that has the style questionText with and tags. Then, surround every chunk of text that has the answerText style with and . I can do RegEx, and am playing with Word's Find/Replace wildcards feature, but am just not seeing how to pull this off. VBA would be good, but I'm on the Mac here. :-) Re: find 'n' replace in Word: insert text before every occurrence of a style - Bread Crumbs - 03-04-2010 Load Word 2003 on your windows partition and I will walk you through it.