So, you’ve finished your 100,000 word masterpiece and you’re ready to submit but, you’ve just discovered that your dream agent wants all the italicized words in your manuscript to be underlined instead?

Don’t worry. in Word 2010 it’s a trivial task:

1. Highlight a passage that is in the style you want to change (In this case Italicized words).
2. In the Find/Replace/Select section of the ribbon: Go to ‘select.’
3. In the drop down menu: choose ‘Select text with similar formatting.’ All italicized words in your manuscript will be highlighted.
4. From the ribbon: deselect ‘italics’ and choose ‘underline’

You’re done. Always review the entire document to ensure only the changes you wanted were made.