Trying to put all text that is in quotations into italic text

Hi Kidd_Ip

Thank you very much for replying to my question. I am attempting to replace the existing text in every instance of the document when the text is in quotation marks. If I am not mistaken you are showing me how to replace only certain text within one instance in the doc.  I am using Word in Office365. I have hundreds of text segments in quotation marks. I can do it rather easily one quotation at a time, but it would take me days to accomplish the task this way. I did speak with Microsoft a couple of times. One gentleman says what I am trying to do can not be done. Another, while on chat, logged into my pc and tried numerous methods. He finally gave up and suggested I try this forum. What do you think?

Thanks 

Marty

How about this:

• Open Your Document in Microsoft Word.
• Use the Find and Replace Feature:
  • Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog.
  • In the "Find what" box, enter the text within quotation marks, such as \"*\".
    • The asterisk * is a wildcard character that stands for any sequence of characters.
• Set Up Formatting for Replacement:
  • In the "Replace with" box, enter \1.
  • Click on the "More" button (if needed) to expand the options.
  • Click on "Format" and select "Font...".
  • In the Font dialog, check the "Italic" option and click "OK".
• Replace All:
  • Click on the "Replace All" button to apply the changes.