Redefine character format

[_joH_]

Hello,

I need to change a character format which is currently Courier 10pt to adapt the font size of the underlying paragraph format, e.g. Courier 12pt for body text and Courier 10pt for table text, Courier 9 pt in footnotes and so on.

When I update the character format with Size set to as-is, existing instances stay at 10pt, which is only consequent as the text was 10pt before. Is there a way to change the format to use the paragraph default font size for all existing instances with less effort than applying formats again to all instances?

Using FM 8.0p277 on Windows XP.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
joH

[_joH_]

A reader posted an answer that didn't appear on adobeforums.com so far but on the usenet version. Ron wrote,

> You could create a new format with a different name,
> then apply the new format to all instances of the old one
> with search/replace.

It works perfectly and solved the problem. Thanks very much, Ron.