Adrian, that is very helpful (I have been searching the Help system in vain to try to find out how to achieve that) but it will not allow me to wrap a tag with attributes. For example, while Ctrl-E allows me to wrap 'name' around (e.g., 'Charles Thorndyke') to yield <name>Charles Thorndyke</name>, I...

Thank you, Adrian. It is, unfortunately, the case that the scholarly conventions for representing the content of MSS require XML-like constructs, e.g. βασιλ<έως>, τοῦ νικερίτ<ου>· διὰ χειρὸς ἰω(άννου) τοῦ εὐτε<λοῦς> (καὶ) ξένου τοῦ κούλικ(ος)· (καὶ) οἱ ἀναγινωσκοντες (Note the <ου> and <λοῦς> compon...

Unless I am misunderstanding you, Adrian, that is not what I would like to achieve. The master source is prepared using Microsoft Excel by a classics scholar, and it would (should) be his responsibility to identify which stretches of text are not in English (e.g., are in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and so ...

Thank you, that is very useful information. I have a supplementary question, if I may ? The Excel spreadsheet is not monolingual, and contains text primarily in British English with intermixed polytonic Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Is it possible to surround the stretches of text in languages other than...