One of the commonest reasons is that you have some kind of formatting
applied to the "Find what" box.
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"LurfysMa" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:58:02 -0700, aneasiertomorrow
wrote:
Hi there
I might be missing the point completely, but if you want to turn some of
the
occurances of 'father' to red you can use find and replace:
1. Ctrl+h to open replace dialogue box
2. Type father in find what
3. Type ^& in the replce with box (^& puts in the text from the find what
box)
4. With the cursor still in the replace with box, select
More...-Format-font and change font colour to red
5. Perform the find and replace as normal.
Hope that helps and sorry if I've misunderstood :-)
Lucy
That's a very helpful tip and it would probably have prevented the
problem, but I would still like to know what caused Find to stop
working.
Thanks
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