Can words in LibreOffice be auto-italicized?

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Works for me w/3.3.4 and 3.4.4 linux.

Hi,
menu:Find&Replace...
Search: <whatever>
button: [Select All]
Now you have a multiple selection which can be formatted by a character
style (character styles can be assigned to shortcuts) or by hard formatting.

Lluís de Yzaguirre wrote

Thanks, but could you teach a macro to do so?

Of course. Go ahead and write your macro if you are a programmer.
But what is it good for? Save 3 keystrokes per day or 30? Forget it.