Help with Adobe Reader

[Super Firebug]

I hope that someone here can answer this in the affirmative. Is there a way to search a PDF document for all instances of a particular style - such as bolding, underlining or italicizing - applied to text? I'm copying and pasting PDFs into Wordpad to make RTF versions for my e-reader (which doesn't handle PDFs well). The bolding and italicizing copy over, but not the underlining. If I could have Reader show me all underlining in the PDF, it'd make it a lot easier to duplicate it manually in Wordpad. Or, if you could tell me how to copy and paste underlining, that'd work, too. Thanks for any help.

[Shenku]

To my knowledge there is no function in Adobe's PDF readers, or any word processing program to my knowledge, that allows you to search documents based on the formating of a word/s, only the words or keywords themselves...

Personally, I'd love the ability to do format based searches through my documents, especially if there were a find and replace function that could change the searched words' formats across the whole document(important terms in my books for example that need to all be italicized). Would make editing my books so much easier...

That's not to say there isn't a program that can do what your asking, I just don't know of it if one does exist...

[Blondeshell]

Back when I used the DOS version of WordPerfect, you could see the exact control key codes for formatting bold, italics, carriage returns, etc. (^B, ^I, ^K), and could search for them, too. It appears that feature is still available in the current version of WordPerfect Office X7, allowing you to search for and replace both general and specific formatting codes. (Ref: Page 63 of the user guide).

Since WordPerfect can also open and edit PDF files, you could use it to convert your documents to RTF format instead of using Wordpad. Granted, you'd have to purchase the office suite, but it's a heckuva lot easier than what you're trying to do.

I haven't used WordPerfect in about twenty years since MS Word took over the market, but it's still used widely in corporate, legal, and educational areas. Most general computer users have forgotten about it.