In Scrivening mode, using Select Similar Formatting from the Styles panel, I find about 25% of the possible text chunks to be selected get selected.
I’m trying to select text that is Bold when the style is No Style to assure the proper text is Bolded.
It’s a big doc, 1000 pages. Could that be the issue?
It’s fairly picky about what similar formatting means, maybe the font sizes are slightly different, or some text is underlined, etc. It’s hard to say without a more precise example, but those are cases where it would intentionally skip over text that is otherwise bold as well.
Thanks for the reply.
I made the text regular in font size at the start. Would it help to search for something like underline, replace it temporarily, then try again?
If you do use underlining and bold together, then yeah that would help. It was just an example I gave though, any kind of formatting can get in the way.
You might also try on smaller chunks of the binder too. I don’t know for sure if there are scaling issues with the tool, but honestly I’ve never tested it to the extreme that you describe.
While it’s a different kind of tool, step by step instead of highlighting, you might also find the Edit ▸ Find ▸ Find by Formatting... tool more useful for finding bold text specifically. The “Character Format” find mode is what you want, where you can isolate one specific kind of formatting to search for. It also by default jumps from one binder item to the next, so there is no need to use time-consuming massive scrivenings sessions with it.