In news:f7c6c85d752a7383846a10171b2eca59@news.secureusenet.com,
Murgi <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> radiated into the WorldWideWait:

> I have a large English file in MS Word format where marked text
> parts need to be overwritten (translated into another language). My
> client wants me to type this text in red color. There are whole
> paragraphs, one line texts and individual  words all over the
> entire job. Since I count my work by the bytes (characters), I want
> to
>
> a) either copy all red marked text parts into another file   or
> b) erase all black letters so that only the red ones remain.
>
> Is this manageable in ONE step? If so, how to do that?
> Some procedure like in "Find & Replace": Search for 'black-colored'
> text and replace it by nothing. The red-colored text would remain...

You already know how, so why ask?
Incidentally, I've done that very thing, although I was retaining the
text formatted in italics, rather than by color. Worked fine.

Just a (probably unneeded) reminder, just in case: Save the whole
thing as a new file BEFORE doing anything. aHEM... I've, er, wished
I'd done that, too...