Y'all are doing this the hard way. Word allows regex replacements as well
as format based criteria.

For this particular use case:

   1. Open the find/replace dialog (CTL+H)
   2. In the "Find what" box, put (<*>) -- make sure the option for "Use
   Wildcards" is selected, and for the format, specify italic
   3. For the"Replace box," just put \1 and specify All caps

And you're done

kyle

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Krichel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>   Eric Phetteplace writes
>
> > You can match a string of all caps letters like "[A-Z]"
>
>   This works if you are limited to English. But in a multilingual
>   setting, you need to watch out for other uppercases, such as
>   крихель vs КРИХЕЛЬ. It then depends in the unicode implementation
>   of your regex application. In Perl, for example, you would use
>   [[:upper:]].
>
>
> --
>
>   Cheers,
>
>   Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                               skype:thomaskrichel
>