A more precise TL;DR would be "I wrote my document with some parts italicized and then applied margin formatting which removed my italics if less than 50% of th

A more precise TL;DR would be "I wrote my document with some parts italicized and then applied margin formatting which removed my italics if less than 50% of the selection was italics, but kept it otherwise." Wordperfect didn't have this "feature," so it's better. Here's a description of the feature with screenshots: http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/stylesoverridedirectformatting.html http://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/stylesoverridedirectforma... Here's one workaround: http://wordribbon.tips.net/T009594_Retaining_Explicit_Formatting_after_Applying_Styles.html http://wordribbon.tips.net/T009594_Retaining_Explicit_Format... Based on this, I would suggest personally that once you've highlighted all the italics via Find, you could apply a style that's italic (such as "Subtle Emphasis" which looks like non-bold italic by default) which should in turn change the direct formatting to style-based formatting and, in theory, act like WordPerfect did from then on...