[Philos]

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"Jezebel" wrote:

What's the question?


"Philos" wrote in message
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Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and
the box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All.
I use two words, for example Essene[!.]@will and click on "find next"
I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents
and 2,500 footnotes.
When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results
at all: not even a message that the search was completed.
Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time
I click on "find" the search would return to the beginning of the
document, instead of continuing down. When I clicked again on "find" again, sometimes the search would continuue down from the point that it had returned back to the beginning. The search is unreliable.
I removed the Table of Contents and I got a little better results: more succesfull
finds. But still the searches keep coming back to the beginning of the
document and sometimes stop. It does not give a message that the search was
completed.
What is causing the search not to be reliable? What causes it sometime not to start and other times not to be completed?
Does the formating of a document have any effect on the search?