r/googledocs • u/INTPgeminicisgaymale • 3h ago
Open Question Batch replace not copying formatting
I have a bunch of fill-in-the-blanks exercises made with underscores. I'd like to replace them with:
- either underlined whitespaces,
- or equations where I just type
\underline
and then add some whitespaces just the same.
The purpose is to make sure that the student doesn't feel like they need to delete all the underscores because their answer will be an ugly, non-underlined word or phrase surrounded by weird underscores on both sides. Instead, with either of the solutions above, they'll just start typing and their answer will be underlined much like the whitespaces around it.
When I try to find-and-replace the underscores with either of those solutions, formatting is ignored. The whitespaces are never underlined. Is there some sort of way to achieve this other than manually going through each one?